EuroMaidan Revolution
Ian Reifowitz: Vladimir Putin is just the latest bully
Who are the Ukrainians? More fundamentally, are there Ukrainians? These questions of national identity stand at the core of the struggle for Ukrainian independence that protesters are waging right now in Kiev's central square, as well as in other cities across the country. The current crisis began when Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych decided that his government would "suspend the preparations for the signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union." The agreement between the EU and Ukraine had already been negotiated and "initialed" but Yanukovych appeared to be choosing a path that would reduce Ukraine to little more than an economic and, in all likelihood, political satellite of Russia.