East of Center: On Kyiv, Brussels, oligarchs, and a comatose patient
Is Ukraine committing suicide? That’s the path that writer Andriy Bondar fears his country is taking. In a heart-wrenching piece in the inaugural issue of New Eastern Europe, he writes, “Twenty years after regaining independence we have embarked on a programme of voluntary self-destruction.” What is the nature of this self-destruction? It lies in the division between one class of people who have used the apparatus of state, natural resources, and international trade to turn their country into a giant cash register and another who literally did not know which way was forward.
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