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Understanding Ukraine’s Maidan

January 5, 2014 – 9:50 pm

By Halyna Klymuk Chomiak, Maidan citizen journalist Many people think that EuroMaidan began the day after people realized that Yanukovych was not serious about reaching an agreement with the EU. They became fearful of a regression and a union with Russia and Putin. They began to do what Ukrainian people do when there is confusion, danger, and […]

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Can Russia fix itself by 2012?

January 11, 2010 – 11:15 pm

In 2010, Russia is picking up the pieces after the train wrecks that derailed its express return to great power status—the near-collapse of its stock market, the aftereffects of the Georgia war, and the global financial crisis. The good news—for the Kremlin—is that despite major falls in the prices for energy and raw materials from […]

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