Ukrainian Frigid Nights
Read the article at the following link regarding the increasing unrest resultant of the unequivocally rigged presidential elections in the Ukraine: http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=586067
My brother Daniel, a U.S. Army linguist fluent in Russian and living in Germany, has spent an awful lot of time in the Ukraine of late and has wonderfully articulated in several posts on Matthew Good's site (www.matthewgood.org) the hopes and fears of contemporary Ukrainians and their futile role as denizens of a State too valuable (oil and other resources) to be released from the bear's claw of its longstanding Mother Russia, let alone the European Community (and U.S.). It will be very, very interesting to see what unfolds from this; Putin clearly (and desperately?) squared against the rest of Europe/U.S. in terms of who is/ought to be President of the Ukraine. Is bloodshed inevitable? Would Yushchenko survive a day even were he to be placed in power?
My brother Daniel, a U.S. Army linguist fluent in Russian and living in Germany, has spent an awful lot of time in the Ukraine of late and has wonderfully articulated in several posts on Matthew Good's site (www.matthewgood.org) the hopes and fears of contemporary Ukrainians and their futile role as denizens of a State too valuable (oil and other resources) to be released from the bear's claw of its longstanding Mother Russia, let alone the European Community (and U.S.). It will be very, very interesting to see what unfolds from this; Putin clearly (and desperately?) squared against the rest of Europe/U.S. in terms of who is/ought to be President of the Ukraine. Is bloodshed inevitable? Would Yushchenko survive a day even were he to be placed in power?
posted by Paul V. Regelbrugge at 10:06 AM
3 Comments:
probably not--morbid as it sounds, maybe Ukraine needs a martyr.
If Yushchenko is that much THE man of the people, then maybe you're right. Is he the people's genuine choice, or is he rather the lesser of two evils. Does it matter? I love his bravado though, declaring himself president in a tent city in subzero temperatures. Would that we could be so moved....
the problem is that he's a banker. I read an interesting article on the bbc in which it was stated that there would have been a better chance of this protest being effective if Yuschenko were more like the relentless head of the Georgian "turn-over". Ultimately, we'll see how deep this conviction runs.
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