Saturday, 04 September 2010




The apparent electoral victory of Viktor Yanukovych, the villain of Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution, is full of ironies. The political rebirth of this man, who served two prison sentences as a teenager for robbery with violence and whose adult reputation is of a political thug who is too friendly with Ukraine's robber-baron oligarchs, is extraordinary enough. Five years ago the outright fraudulent theft of the presidential election by his followers led to the pro-democracy Orange Revolution on...
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