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Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. In a rare event for a former Soviet satellite, power changed hands peacefully and democratically at the ballot box in Ukraine on the weekend. Voters handed the job of healing their economically bankrupt and fractious country to Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russian opposition leader. Read the story here.