The director of the programmes of Russia and CIS at the German council on foreign policy, Alexander Rar, believes that Germany may become the “main advocate” of Ukraine in the European Union. In his interview to the BBC Ukrainian Service he said that if the Christian Democratic Party, CDU, wins the election, “the attitude towards Ukraine will change”. “Ukraine will thus get a real chance to obtain a strategic friend, when the issue of Ukraine’s accession to the Union arises”. In addition, Ukraine has won lots of sympathies after the orange revolution; many more than Russia, “which is said to...