Yushchenko seeking to destabilise elections in order to cling on to power

Ukraine’s second most popular presidential candidate, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, suspects that President Viktor Yushchenko -who is running for a second term- of conspiring to disrupt the presidential election scheduled for January 17, 2010. Yushchenko, to whom opinion polls give no more than 2-4 percent of popular support, has appealed to the constitutional court against several provisions in a new election law.

Yushchenko is more unpopular in Ukraine than in Russia

Dmitry Medvedev’s decision to refrain from sending the Russian ambassador to Kiev has been interpreted by the media and analysts as Moscow’s rupture with the Ukrainian president.

Holodomor: Tragedy, Politics, and Memory

Let’s just get this one thing out in the open right away:

I hate the way both the Ukrainians and Russians have politicized Holodomor. On one hand, in Kiev, I walk past tacky posters proclaiming that “We are remembering/ The world is learning.” There’s even a little design on them – which looks suspiciously like fireworks (someone in some PR department has seriously messed up, in my opinion).

Yushchenko hammered in the last nail in the Orange revolution’s coffin and democracy in Ukraine

“The Democratic Coalition in name alone was destroyed by one thing – by human ambition. By the human ambition of a single person. By thirst for power, divergence of values, priority of personal interests over national interests.”