Archive for January, 2007
Tarasiuk Goes, What Remains?
Borys Tarasiuk’s resignation as Foreign Minister on Tuesday sends many signals to the outside world as well as to domestic Ukrainian politics. As I wrote last week in Eurasia Daily Monitor, the battle for power between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has reached into the dangerous field of the security forces.
Tarasiuk […]
Legal Chaos or Bardak in Ukraine
US-American Judge Bohdan Futey spelled the situation out well in Ukraine with his opinion editorial on legal chaos in Ukraine in the Kyiv Post http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/oped/25873/. Or, to put it more simply, bardak.
The general consensus of everybody I have spoken to in England, Canada and the USA over the last month, and especially since last week, […]
Immigrants and EU Membership
Over Christmas and the New Year when I was visiting Britain the newspaper headlines seemed full of foreboding about the pending membership of Romania and Bulgaria in the EU in January. Headlines competed with one another about the likelihood of Britain being overwhelmed by thousands of illegal migrants from these two countries.
The headlines were surprising […]
Christmas and New Year in Britain and North America
Growing up in Britain I always felt very privileged as a child to celebrate two Christmases and two New Years over a four week period. This was a consequence not only of living in Britain but of having an Italian mother and a Ukrainian father. The New Year according to the old calendar seems to […]