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2011-10-13 Europe

Ukraine Tries to Limit Tymoshenko Damage

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Posted by Fred 2011-10-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 both the West and Russia angrily condemned

Now, ain't that something?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-10-13 04:32|| 2011-10-13 04:32|| Front Page Top

#2 To say politics in Ukraine is complex is an understatement.

Viktor Yanukovych, the current leader, is the Ukraine's equivalent to Obama, with an undocumented academic past. His party is mostly supported by the Russian speaking half of Ukraine, and tends to pan-Slavophilism and authoritarianism.

Yulia Tymoshenko and her parties are associated both with Ukraine's 'Orange Revolution' against authoritarianism and pan-Slavophilism and Russian alignment, preferring Europe and possibly NATO. But at the same time she was willing to do some profitable capitalism with Russia, which made them smile on her.

What recently rattled Ukraine to the bone was that they were very hard hit with a severe and lethal form of H1N1 influenza that threw their country into a blind panic. Even their medical community was freaking out as the lung damage from the disease was terrifying. Lungs coal black at autopsy.

Which of course created massive political distress as well.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-10-13 10:45|| 2011-10-13 10:45|| Front Page Top

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