Archive for August, 2007
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Ukraine will (again!) hold elections next month. Many of the people I talk to seem to believe that they will not decide much. One wonders what BBC Ukrainian service readers think?
Reaction in Washington to the April decree disbanding parliament was, to say the least, mixed. One group, maybe more pro-orange, ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
I had thought it was now too difficult for Ukrainian politics to continue to shock me. The last 3 years events (2004 election fraud, Yushchenko’s poisoning, orange in-fighting, strategic mistakes by the president, Moroz’s defection and the return of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych) were enough shocks to last a life ...
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
When we are young most of us seek to escape our parents clutches and find freedom. This is at least true for myself who voluntarily left home at 18. But, what if one was involuntarily taken at the age of 15 to never again see one’s parents and to ...
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