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The president's South Korean visit: no sanctions, no isolation President Viktor Yanukovych's visit to South Korea was highly productive, and once again proved that that Ukraine's top officials face neither sanctions, no isolation in the world.
Mar 30 at 12:28 | Viacheslav Pikhovshek
The Economist: Viktor’s Day A court ruling in Ukraine on March 28th further erodes not only the Orange revolution’s political gains, but its symbols.Celebrated on November 22nd, the anniversary of the Orange Revolution, Freedom Day (or Den Svobody in Ukrainian) is a holiday created by President Viktor Yushchenko in 2005 to mark the “historic significance of the revolutionary events of autumn 2004”. Every year, crowds have reassembled on Kyiv's Maidan to commemorate the political victory, and by implication to denounce electoral fraud, abuse of power and interference from Russia.

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Mar 30 at 10:29
Should Ukraine reinstate death penalty for murder?

Mar 29 at 23:51 | Alyona Zhuk and Olga Rudenko
What John Demjanjuk could have taught us Stephen Paskey writes: The Demjanjuk case shows the law's limits.
Mar 29 at 23:13 | Stephen Paskey
Vox populi with Brian Bonner: Was it a good idea for Obama to meet with Yanukovych in Seoul? Do you think it was a good idea for U.S. President Barack Obama to meet privately with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, on March 27, especially in light of the West’s criticism of Yanukovych for persecuting his political opponents? We asked guests at a U.S.-Ukraine Business Council forum in Kyiv on March 28.
Mar 29 at 22:46 | Brian Bonner
Digital Tonto: Is Apple a bubble? In 1999, just after the Dow broke 10,000, the book Dow 36,000 predicted it would more than triple in just a few years.
Mar 28 at 15:11 | Greg Satell
Ukraine-Russia gas situation Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has confirmed Ukraine’s intention to significantly reduce imports of Russian natural gas.
Mar 28 at 08:57 | Zoya Burbeza
All power to 'The Family' Two years have passed since Viktor Yanukovych was inaugurated as president. Since then Ukraine has changed greatly. After hardly any legislation being adopted during five orange years, the country has seen febrile legislative activity. The number of government changes has also been large.
Mar 27 at 13:36 | Anders Aslund
Despite pressure, Ukraine manages to stand up for its interests The long saga of Ukraine’s ups and downs in joining a free-trade zone with other former Soviet republics seems to be coming to an end. President Viktor Yanukovych is closer than ever to fulfilling his foreign political goal of opening up trade within the region, also known as the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Mar 27 at 13:27 | Viacheslav Pikhovshek
Is dinner ever really free when you are Ukrainian? Every time you go to a foreign country you understand pretty well how other people perceive your native land. As a result, they treat you according to this perception and as a stereotype from the place you came from. Maybe I will sound a little bit anti-patriotic, but as you probably noticed Ukraine is not the best country to live in. It has a lot of peculiarities that form a stereotype of my country which in most cases is pretty close to reality.
Mar 27 at 09:51 | Alina Likholat
Digital Tonto: What drives prosperity? “President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!” exclaimed Rick Santorum.
Mar 26 at 13:55 | Greg Satell
Gryshchenko carries on in best tradition of Soviet foreign ministers Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko’s recent response to the opinion article of five European Union foreign ministers was a paradigm reminiscent of Soviet diplomacy, led from 1957 to 1985 by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Granted, it was amusing because it was so egregious. After all Gryshchenko is a copycat of Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and they are alumni of the same school.
Mar 26 at 12:20 | Askold S. Lozynskyj
World Affairs Journal: Ukraine is the Yanukovych family's business Just when did people start referring to the inner circle around President Viktor Yanukovych as “The Family”? The term is now commonplace, but my impression is that it started entering the political vocabulary of Ukraine about six to twelve months ago, when son Oleksandr joined [3] Viktor Senior and Viktor Junior to form a triumvirate of power holders and all three began promoting their buddies to positions of authority in the government or to positions of unbounded rapaciousness in the economy.
Mar 26 at 09:44 | Alexander J. Motyl
What John Demjanjuk could have told us On March 17, John Demjanjuk died in a German nursing home. Demjanjuk spent 35 years of his life fighting charges that he served as a Nazi guard. In 2009, he was convicted in Germany as an accomplice to the murder of 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor extermination camp in occupied Poland.
Mar 23 at 17:21 | Stephen Paskey
Bloomberg: Ukrainian woman's rape stirs public 'vendetta' On March 10, a passer-by in the Southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, population 500,000, heard faint moaning from a construction site and alerted a cop. The policeman climbed through a hole in the fence andfound a sighthe is likely never to forget: a naked girl somebody had tried to burn alive. Oksana Makar, 18, was barely hanging on to life: Doctors later estimated that her burns affected 55 percent of her body. She had also been raped and half-strangled.

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Mar 23 at 08:27