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...will be: "If you have a lot of resources, and I need them, I may use my gun to take them." Moscow's heavy-handed interference in Ukraine's 2004 orange revolution hints at how easily discrepant views about the near abroad could flame up. The West viewed Viktor Yushchenko's victory as the triumph of people power over a malign Soviet-style government; Moscow saw an anti-Russian plot by the cia acting through democracy-promoting ngos. Should Ukraine go further by applying to join nato, Russia could apply crippling economic sanctions, including cutting off energy supplies or blocking...
...improve political ties with China outweighs commercial considerations. Yet by contrast, Vladimir Ryzhkov, an independent member of the Duma, reckons that the key driver of the Ukraine conflict earlier this year was Gazprom wanting better prices - "not some willingness to revive the [Russian] empire or punish [Ukrainian President Viktor] Yushchenko." A former Russian Deputy Energy Minister, Vladimir Milov, reports that top officials from Putin down spend a lot of their time fretting about corporate matters. "I was surprised to realize that the lion's share of our President's office work was detailed involvement in the daily life...
...After all, a good portion of people will always prefer guaranteed rations and order to the messiness and uncertainty of freedom. That in many respects explains the amazing tenacity and comeback of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who lost the Presidency in December of 2004 to reformer Viktor Yushchenko after the people revolted against a clearly fraudulent initial election in a non-violent surge of people power. In this past weekend's parliamentary elections, Yanukovych's Party of the Regions (PR) led with over 31% of the votes, while Yushchenko's Our Ukraine (OU) party had a humiliating third...
...allegations - never dealt with by the President in any convincing way - that his son Andriy paid for his notoriously high lifestyle of posh cars, penthouse apartments and expensive parties with revenues from Orange revolution symbols, patented in his name as trademarks and sold at the market like hot pies. Yushchenko only added insult to injury last summer, when he lashed out at the journalist Serhiy Leshchenko, 25, who wrote an expose of the presidential son. "The most amazing thing is that Yushchenko himself co-authored my story - and failed to realize this," Leshchenko told me at the time...
...worst blow came last September, when Yushchenko and Tymoshenko traded accusations of betrayal of the Orange revolution. The entire Orange administration imploded within a couple of days: Yushchenko fired Tymoshenko, and then fired his lieutenants who were most involved in the war of words with...