EuroMaidan Revolution
James Nadeau: Ukraine’s real problem is crony capitalism
The protests in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, had reached their apogee when Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.) introduced a bipartisan resolution aimed at “supporting the democratic and European aspirations of the people of Ukraine.” The resolution, already largely forgotten, spares little ink in criticizing Ukraine’s police force and the country’s general leadership, denouncing perceived affronts to the Ukrainian people’s “constitutional rights to freely assemble and express their opposition to President Yanukovych’s decision.”