[Timedrifter]

Its just two rival groups of crooks battling it out for power from everything I have read. Whoever finally gets in power will certainly be a dissapointment to almost everyone except those who financially benefit.

As somebody who travels to that part of the world four times a year I do want to point out some facts about the lay of the land. The average income in Russia is over twice that of Ukraine. The city of Moscow with 10 million people, almost has the same GDP as the entire Ukraine of 47 million. There are hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who go to Russia every year to find work. Many of them work in the contruction industry. On many of the projects I personally worked on I would say Ukrainians made up about 30% of the workforce. Ukraine to Russia at the current time is in a way like Mexico to the United States, but Ukraine has a lot of potential with an educated population and excellent ports.

[eleni121]

"As somebody who travels to that part of the world four times a year..."

That's fascinating. I have head similar stories from Ukrainian immigrants here. It's too bad there is that enmity between them...they are about the same ethnicity with only religion dividing them right?