Archive for the ‘General Articles’ Category
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
http://lb.ua/news/2011/07/21/107118_Eto_ne_krizis_Eto_krah.html
http://www.foreignnotes.blogspot.com/
Portnikov's dire prediction
I'm loosely translating a most gloomy 'end of term' report by the respected independent political journalist Vitaliy Portnikov, published recently in 'Leviy Bereg'.
Portnikov is well known as a regular, popular commentator on 'Shuster Live' and other television programmes. He is a 'Radio Svoboda' presenter, as well as being ...
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Sunday, July 24th, 2011
Financial Times, July 19, 2011
Editorial
Ukraine has its Yukos moment
Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovich has justifiably been accused of setting up a “Putin lite” system since his election 18 months ago. Power has been concentrated in his hands, media criticism stifled. Extending the analogy, he has now found his Yukos case.
The accused ...
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Tigipko’s political career has disintegrated as the so-called ‘new face’ politician has lost support from middle class voters that want to hear a clear signal from him which he is unable to provide; Tigipko prefers to be both in government and in ‘opposition’. Silna Ukraina received sixth place and only ...
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Reading http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2010/11/24/5608935/ Viktor Chyvokin wrote: ‘Unofficially he (Viktor Baloga) has become in charge of organizing support for Yanukovych throughout western Ukraine’.
Baloga has thus returned to his SDPuo roots where he first entered politics in the late 1990s in Zakarpattia, then moving to Our Ukraine and from 2007-2008, when he established ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
I have analysed Ukraine for a quarter of a century from a unique vantage point of having a Ukrainian father and Italian mother. Unique that is, from the viewpoint of analysis but not the Ukrainian community in Britain.
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and slave labourers arrived in Britain ...
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