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The EU Faces Ukrainian Integration and History
After writing last week’s blog, “Yanukovych Faces EU Integration and History,” I was sorely tempted to write this week’s first draft by simply taking last week’s text and substituting “European Union”...
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The Holodomor Symphony
Stephan Maria Karl is a young Austrian composer who is currently writing a symphony about the Holodomor, the famine-genocide of 1932–1933 that took the lives of some 3 to 4 million Ukrainians. He...
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Russia’s Revisionist Claims on Ukraine and Moldova
Is President Vladimir Putin readying the rhetorical groundwork for a full-scale attack on international norms regarding the inviolability of borders and state sovereignty? Could be, if the recent...
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Kyiv’s Raiders and Monsters
If you’d like to understand the wrenching changes Ukraine’s capital city is currently undergoing, watch for a forthcoming book by Professor Roman Cybriwsky, provisionally titled City of Domes and...
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Questioning War Monuments
If you think the monument wars in Ukraine take the cake, think again. The Polish city of Gdansk is in the throes of a controversy over a statue of a Red Army soldier raping a woman. It was installed on...
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Will EU Embrace Ukraine's Membership Bid in Vilnius?
The European Union is often depicted as a feckless, bumbling institution with lots of sex appeal but little capacity to act and talk tough, even when it’s in the EU’s direct interest to do so. As...
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A Ukrainian Blogger for Luhansk Mayor?
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny may not be the only blogger with a bright political future. Similar prospects could await the “Proctologist,” a critically minded Ukrainian blogger based in...
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Ukraine's President Yanukovych Dithers on EU
It was sometime this week, as I was reading yet another news item about President Viktor Yanukovych’s continuing unwillingness to make up his mind about the pending Association Agreement with the...
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Yanukovych Chooses Russia over EU for Ukraine
So how are we to interpret the decision by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, to turn his back on an Association Agreement with the European Union?The underdevelopment of Ukraine’s economy will now...
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What the Mass Demonstrations in Ukraine Mean
Whatever the outcome of the mass demonstrations that rocked capital city Kyiv on Sunday, November 24th, their meaning is clear. The spirit of the 2004 Orange Revolution is alive and well in Ukraine,...
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Dear President Yanukovych, Resign!
Viktor Yanukovych!You were elected president of Ukraine in 2010. After several years of ineffective rule by your predecessor, you had a golden opportunity. You could have become president of all the...
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Ukraine’s Multiple Crises
If current conditions in Ukraine look revolutionary to you, that’s because the Yanukovych regime has maneuvered the country and itself into a series of reinforcing crises. If the regime holds on to...
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Lenin's Final Fall in Kyiv
Whatever the outcome of the ongoing “Euro Revolution” in Ukraine, future historians will view the destruction of the Lenin statue in downtown Kyiv as a milestone in the country’s move away from its...
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Remembering the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide
Although the ongoing Euro Revolution in Ukraine is rightly the focus of much of the world’s attention, we would do well to remember that on November 23rd Ukraine commemorated the 80th anniversary of...
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Watching Yanukovych's Mafia Regime Squirm
It’s been fun watching the Yanukovych regime squirm these last few weeks. Ukraine has exploded with the Euro Revolution. The world is in awe of the tenacity, spirit, nonviolence, and democratic ideals...
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Rethinking the Euro Revolution and the Yanukovych Regime
The Euro Revolution and the Yanukovych regime’s shameful deal with Putin’s Russia are as momentous conceptually as they are politically, requiring a new way of thinking about what has transpired in...
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Taking Yanukovych to the International Criminal Court?
The savage beating on December 25th of investigative journalist Tatiana Chornovol has led Ukrainians to speculate about three possible explanations. The first is that the Yanukovych regime is directly...
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A Free Donetsk?
Want more proof of the fact that the Yanukovych regime is crumbling? Take a look at recent goings-on in his bastion, Donetsk.Communists ruled the city with an iron fist for decades; then the equally...
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Standoff in Ukraine: Mafia Regime vs. Mobilized Citizens
At first glance, the world appears to be coming to an end in Ukraine: President Yanukovych is still in power, he’s signed a neocolonial deal with Russia, and he approved a whole raft of repressive...
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Yanukovych Invites Violence
It was all quite predictable. How could the gangster regime of an avaricious sultan not provoke an uprising by a population tired of being systematically and relentlessly plundered and abused? You...
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