Posted on 02/01/2010 1:31:27 PM PST by lizol
The Revolution that never was. Five years of 'Orange' Ukraine
Policy briefs
2009-11-30 | Adam Eberhardt
On the fifth anniversary of the Orange Revolution and in the final period of the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko, who then embodied the hopes for state reform, a tentative assessment of the situation in Ukraine is appropriate. Did the revolutionary social upheaval bear revolutionary fruit? Have democratic mechanisms strengthened? Has the post-Soviet oligarchic state model been overcome? Has media freedom expanded? Has there been any progress with regard to economic transformation? Has integration with the European structures materialised? Five years on, what remains of the hopes of millions of Ukrainians and of the goodwill of the international community?
It went down the financial toilet of 2008. Look for the Temoshenko party to rule. A third of the Ukraine population is Russian. Look for Ukraine to look for help from Russia, since our western euros put so many road blocks for acceptance of Ukraine into EU. Watching it, one got the idea that the wester euros didn’t want to chance admitting Ukraine into the EU. Western euros - brave, brave Sir Robin, he bravely ran away.
I spent two weeks in Ukraine in 2008. What I was told was that there are five families that rule every aspect of Ukrainian life. They have not been pushed aside. Yuschenko shares power with them. There have been other attempts on Yuschenko’s life. For example the successor of the KGB placed a bomb under his car. Russia is trying to drag Ukraine back into its orbit.
As I’ve read it, the “oragne revolution” is basically the work of George Soros. I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.
Go Yulya! Yanokovich is Scum! He would like to return to all Russian control.
Meet the new boss; same as the old boss. Putting one’s faith in politicians is always a mistake.
I never expected that Yulia Timoshenko would get to a run off.
It may sound crazy, but my money is on Yulia Blon to win definitively if closely.
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