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Ukraine’s Three Revolutionary Breakthroughs
The end of the criminal Yanukovych mafia regime may be nearer than we think. Three developments in the last week mark sea changes that favor the democratic opposition.First, the regime’s elite...
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A Russian Threat to Ukraine?
Let’s start with the alarming question many people are now asking and then consider other forms of possible Russian intervention in the ongoing Ukrainian Revolution. It was on January 31st that...
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Should There Be One Ukraine?
As the criminal Yanukovych regime’s violence, terror, and repression are driving Ukraine to armed conflict and, possibly, fragmentation, it may be worth asking whether Ukraine might not be better off...
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Ukraine's Day of Infamy
Tuesday, February 18, 2014, will go down in European history as a day of infamy. It was then that Viktor Yanukovych declared war on his own people.In retrospect, his decision to kill and maim...
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Ukraine's Opportunity for Genuine Democracy
After 23 years of formal independence, Ukraine stands poised to take the final steps toward genuine independence by liberating itself from what has become the legacy of Soviet communism throughout its...
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Will Putin's Invasion Backfire?
Back in the early 1990s, when the Russian chauvinist Vladimir Zhirinovsky first reared his loony head, analysts began discussing the “Weimar Russia” scenario. Accordingly, the chaos of the...
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Ukraine's Chief Rabbi Refutes Putin's Anti-Semitic Charges
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his supporters in Russia and the West have accused the Ukrainian opposition that led the fight against the criminal Yanukovych regime and the democratic Ukrainian...
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Kissinger Misunderstands Ukraine
When a renowned American statesman such as Henry Kissinger exhibits alarming ignorance about Ukraine, you’ve got to worry. In a March 5th op-ed in the Washington Post, Kissinger got just about...
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Putin’s Terrifying Warmongering
On March 8th, some 15,000 women and children lined the roads of Crimea, and Kherson Province to its north, in protest against Russian President Valdimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The Crimean Tatar...
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'Experts' on Ukraine
An astoundingly large amount of nonsense has been written about Ukraine ever since it came to occupy center stage in the public mind. That’s not surprising: most people in most countries barely knew...
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Is Putin Next?
Here are a few trick questions. Who was elected democratically—Viktor Yanukovych or Vladimir Putin? Who violated his country’s Constitution? Who enjoyed popular legitimacy? Whose rule was unstable?The...
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Experts on Ukraine Still Getting It Wrong
When the West’s leading experts get elementary facts about Ukraine wrong, blithely encourage Russian expansionism, or make illogical arguments, I worry. As should everybody. After all, these are...
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Could Russia Occupy Ukraine?
A Russian invasion of mainland Ukraine continues to worry Ukrainian and Western policymakers, despite statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Moscow has...
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Trading Barbs with Putin
One of Ukraine’s richest oligarchs, Igor Kolomoisky, has just taken another rude poke at Russian President Vladimir Putin. And this time the Jewish Ukrainian businessman hasn’t just insulted Putin. By...
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Putin’s Russia as a State Sponsor of Terrorism
Putin’s Russia has become what the US Department of State calls a “state sponsor of terrorism.”Here’s how: After the Anschluss of Crimea, Putin had three options. He could invade all or parts of...
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In Eastern Ukraine, Terror from Pro-Kremlin Outsiders
For three years now, I’ve been providing a small scholarship to a little girl in the city of Druzhkivka (population: 65,000) in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Province. Her mother, G, has sent me several...
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Putin’s Warlords vs. Ukraine’s Presidential Ballot
Vladimir Putin appears determined to disrupt the May 25th presidential elections in Ukraine.The dictator and his warlords have already gone on a rampage in eastern Ukraine’s Putinstans: they control...
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Remembering the Red Army and Rape
As May 9th, Victory Day, approaches and celebrations of the defeat of Nazi Germany take place throughout all the post-Soviet states, it may be worth remembering that many members of the Red Army traded...
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Separatists Terrorizing, Kidnapping, Beating Citizens in Ukraine
Several weeks ago, I had written of a woman, G, from the town of Druzhkivka, in Donetsk Province, who had noted in her last e-mail to me: “Alexander, they will kill us.” In turn, I had ended my blog...
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Why Germans Are Smitten With Putin
The German liberal newspaper Die Zeitrecently shed a bright light on the German population’s odd love affair with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Germans profess a love of democracy and human rights;...
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