Other Sources, Opinion

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.

Read more here.
Mar 30 at 10:29
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
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
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.

Read the story here.

Mar 23 at 08:27
Demjanjuk Some say John Demjanjuk died an innocent and free man, others say he was an accessory to the murder of tens of thousands of Jews.
Mar 22 at 23:25 | Kyiv Post
Back Story: Keeping the Kyiv Post alive will take support The Kyiv Post has collided with reality. The owner has decided that the bleeding must stop. We’re talking a gully washer of red ink for the last three years.
Mar 22 at 23:08 | Michael Willard
Ukrainian economic success? I am frequently alerted by commercial contacts to difficulties with the Ukrainian business environment; and have often blogged on this subject.
Mar 22 at 18:10 | Leigh Turner
Lviv awakes There are many excellent cities in Ukraine.
Mar 22 at 17:59 | Leigh Turner
Buzzwords, Barclays, and a Ukrainian economic success Do you know your C++ from your Sybase? Do you know the difference between SQL and ORM? If you do, high-paying jobs could be yours – in Kyiv, Lviv or Kharkiv.
Mar 22 at 17:55 | Leigh Turner
Digital Tonto: 5 imperatives for marketing strategy in the digital age Do you have a digital marketing strategy? Probably not.
Mar 22 at 17:46 | Greg Satell
The Jerusalem Post: Demjanjuk and justice According to Germany’s John Demjanjuk decision, even serving as an accessory to murder is a punishable crime.

Read the Jerusalem Post editorial here.
Mar 22 at 11:04
John Demjanjuk Jr: 'My father died a free man' Editor's Note: The following is a statement by John Demjanjuk Jr., son of John Demjanjuk, who was accused of being an accesssory to the German Nazi murders of 27,900 Jews while serving as a prision guard in the Sobibor concentration camp in Poland during World War II.
Mar 22 at 09:35 | John Demjanjuk Jr.
New York Times: Ukraine responds I read with interest the recent opinion article by five E.U. foreign ministers (“Ukraine’s slide,” Views, March 5). I respect their opinion. Yet for me it is not perception that matters but facts. I would therefore like to offer five important ones here.
Mar 21 at 09:38
Digital Tonto: Selfish Memes LOL cats, Justin Bieber, thefirst four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
Mar 19 at 15:19 | Greg Satell