Even more links on Ukraine

[katsaris]

Another fine article about Ukraine: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,15569,1359099,00.html: "Actually, it's in places like Kiev, rather than in Brussels, that you see what a great story Europe has to tell, if only we knew how to tell it. It's the story of a rolling enlargement of freedom, from a position 60 years ago when there was just a handful of perilously free countries in Europe, and virtually the whole continent was at war, to a position today where there are only two or three seriously unfree countries in Europe, and almost the whole continent is at peace. Today, the front line of that forward march is in Ukraine."

There may be hints that the tide keeps on turning in favour of Yushchenko. Ukrainian state TV came out in favour of the demonstrations.

Also the eastern province of Luhansk has declared itself independent and requests to be annexed by Russia. Over at Postmodern clog our Ukrainian blogger reports that the nearby region of Donetsk (Yanukovich stronghold) is likewise contemplating secession.

So it seems we're reached the "sepatist" phase, which I described about a month ago as the one of only two possibilities for the countries of the CIS: "If you don't have a Russia-supporting dictatorship, a separatist movement will come along, Russian army will intervene to create "peace" between it and the central government, and the regions it controls will be Russia-supporting dictatorships."

Still these declarations and talk of separatism seem to be a *good* indication (relatively), as they would probably only come to be if the greater game of controlling the whole of Ukraine seemed lost.

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I heard some otehr good news about the EU

[greenbaron.livejournal.com]

I was reading a book and they had a chart showing Luxembourg as the third most economically free nation in the world (surpased only by Hong Kong and Singapore), so that's another good mark for the EU and Ireland and the UK also made the top ten list.

I have read a bit on Ukraine's situation and Lech Walesa has become involved (he reminds me not to cringe at the word solidarity). It makes me glad that the US's woprst issues is over being divided between two blas'e parties that have few differences.

Still these declarations and talk of separatism seem to be a *good* indication (relatively), as they would probably only come to be if the greater game of controlling the whole of Ukraine seemed lost. I'd agree there as it may make everyone happy, for the moment.

Granted, I prefer Putin to the old USSR, but that's not saying a whole lot.

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