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"Such a system as [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin's is exactly a target for destruction. It needs to be destroyed."
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
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Kostiantyn Matvienko writes: I happened to watch the opening of a park that symbolized victory over builders. It was on Peizazhna Alley in Kyiv’s oldest part, right over the legendary village of Honchari-Kozhumiaky (“Potters and Tanners”), already disfigured by architects and builders, practically at the territory of the National Historical Museum, near the foundations of the Tithe Church, the 400-year-old lime tree of Metropolitan Petro Mohyla, the remnants of Princess Olha’s rotunda, and an ancient rampart of the Prince Kyi era. There are about 300 “hot spots” in Kyiv, where bitter clashes continue between the builders and the Kyivites who defend their parks, children’s playgrounds, woodlands, islands, and river banks. Read the story here. Nov 24, 2009 at 18:36 |
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Taras Kuzio writes:In 2008 presidential candidate Arseniy Yatseniuk was seen as the new face of Ukrainian politics supporting a pro-Western foreign policy; but, this was before Ukrainians and Westerners had seen his program. Since last summer, his election program has positioned Yatseniuk as the candidate supporting an isolationist-nationalist third way, without deference to either Moscow or Brussels and Washington. Read the story here. Nov 24, 2009 at 08:26 |
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Jamestown Foundation opinion: Moscow backtracks from strategy to bypass Ukraine’s gas transit system
Vladimir Socor writes:Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko declared on November 16 that the Nord Stream pipeline on the Baltic seabed would not be used for diverting gas volumes away from Ukraine’s transit pipelines to Europe. In effect, this statement acknowledges that the Nord Stream pipeline, from Russia directly to Germany, is not a Ukraine-bypass project (Interfax, November 16). Read the opinion here. Nov 24, 2009 at 08:02 |
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Myroslava Gongadze, widow of slain journalist Georgiy Gongadze, writes that those longing for strong-armed rule may outnumber those who want to preserve their imperfect democracy. Read the opinion here. Nov 24, 2009 at 07:51 |