Ukraine’s “Litmus Test” Elections Arrive
Tomorrow, Sunday October 28, Ukrainians will head to the polls for their parliamentary elections. Ukraine is still a young democracy, bearing the scars of seventy years of Soviet occupation both in the...
View ArticleUkraine Looks West and Southeast, Not East
Continuing a foreign policy that seems to be explicitly aimed in every direction but Moscow’s, Ukraine has just concluded a Presidential-level delegation to the United Arab Emirates in order to expand...
View ArticleUkraine’s Brinksmanship with Russia and European Union
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is playing a dangerous game, but it is one forced on him by a European Union that pushes Ukraine away even as it claims it wants closer ties. The policy of every...
View ArticleUkraine, Tymoshenko and the European Court of Human Rights
In a widely-misunderstood ruling Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights concluded that former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s rights were violated when she was detained for contempt of...
View ArticleDecision Time Approaches for EU-Ukraine Association Agreement as Putin Ups...
You would not know it from news reports, but Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has one of the hardest jobs in world politics: He is trying to guide Ukraine into a European future without...
View ArticleEurope Has Failed Ukraine
(Written with the concurrence of the undersigned.) Ukraine has announced that it has no choice but to suspend the planned signing of the Association Agreement with the European Union. This is a win for...
View ArticleLeaked Phone Call Shows Western Incompetence in Ukraine
Every time the West’s handling of Ukraine cannot possibly appear more incompetent, someone somehow finds a way to prove that impression wrong. On Thursday, someone (almost certainly someone in Russian...
View ArticleWest Sowing a Bitter Harvest in Ukraine
As I began writing this, the city I call home was burning. It was burning because the protesters in Kyiv whom the West has guardedly endorsed, led by actual, live fascists, were attacking the police,...
View ArticleEurope’s Credulity on Display: Were Ukrainian Snipers Backed by Maidan Leaders?
The BBC, al Jazeera, and other outlets are reporting on a leaked phone call between Estonia’s Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and EU foreign affairs head Catherine, Ashton in which Paet reports that the...
View ArticleReflections on Lost Chances: Ukraine and the CIS
As the pretend, latest, pointless ceasefire in the Donbass celebrates another week of artillery-fueled “peace,”complete with more destroyed infrastructure and more lives pointlessly lost; and Russia...
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