Archive for October, 2006
International Travel
International travel is no longer as glamourous as it used to be. We can blame the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington for this to some extent. But, not in the case of Ukraine. Here little has changed after the Orange Revolution with the exception that EU, US and Canadian citizens no longer need […]
Downward Slope of Self-Destruction
The BBC Ukrainian service rang me during my recent visit to western Ukraine for an interview on Our Ukraine’s decision to officially go into opposition. I think that the interviewer was taken aback at my pessimism (or realism?) that Our Ukraine is close to a finished political force and that there will be no united […]
Maidan
Early on Saturday morning I walked from the apartment I am renting on Horodetskoho to the Maidan where I intended to use the Internet Café in the Main Post Office. To my surprise, the Khreshchatyk and Maidan were blocked by Internal Troops from the Interior Ministry. What a sight, I thought to myself, that the […]
Analyzing Yanykovych Article: “Ukraine’s Choice: Towards Europeâ€
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych’s re-assurances in his very nicely written Washington Post article “Ukraine’s choice: towards Europeâ€, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100401541.html
about his commitment to reform and Euro-Atlantic integration do not stand up to public scrutiny. But, before we analyze his article let us who wrote it, a question that has been put to by quite a few people. […]
Groundhog Day
Observing Ukrainian politics since the 2006 elections I have come to the conclusion that Ukraine resembles the mythical town in the 1993 film Groundhog Day (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/). This was confirmed even more by a good article in today’s Ukraina moloda (http://www.umoloda.kiev.ua/number/770/113/28025/), which says: “СталоÑÑ. «Ðаша Україна» нарешті припинила розриватиÑÑ Ð¼Ñ–Ð¶ двома берегами й… ÐÑ–, до […]