[RachelFaith]

Looks like the free market of ideas is working.

[Drew68]

But rights groups say that while Ukraine is good at welcoming professionals, it is still inhospitable to relatively unskilled political refugees, granting only 3 percent of applications for political asylum, compared with more than 30 percent in neighboring Poland.

Hmm... Ukraine wants immigrants who can contribute to her growing prosperity as opposed to being a drain on her already overburdened social welfare system? What an alien concept.

I've been to Ukraine twice. Loved it! I was married in the Donbass region. Walking through customs as an American citizen at Boryspil International outside Kiev was so painlessly easy.

The Ukrainians I met were very friendly to Americans and both times I was there my guests pretty much showed me a non-stop party. Oh, and the women? The most beautiful in the world. I'm fortunate to have married one. I would visit Ukraine every year if I could.

[dljordan]

Don’t worry Ukraine. When the bureaucrats and the politicians in your new republic get sufficiently organized and gain enough power they will start stealing whatever freedoms you have.

[Timedrifter]

While at the same time 2 million Ukrainians work in Russia. As long as wages are more than 2X over the border in Russia Ukraine will never attract many Russians other than a few intelligentsia types.