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...only a week ago, Ukraine??s pro-Western coalition collapsed due to infighting between President Viktor Yushenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, two prominent leaders of the Orange Revolution. Viktor Yanukovich, whose initial victory over Ukrainian President, Victor Yushenko in fraud-plagued elections inspired the 2004 Orange Revolution, remains a major figure on the Ukrainian political scene. And last November, America’s sweetheart, Mr. Saakashvilli, declared a 15-day state of emergency after police broke up opposition protests calling for Mr. Saakashvilli to step down...
...York City. According to subway operators, civil engineers, and botanists, Gotham would see its subways flooded within two to three days, bridges collapsed within two to three centuries, and thriving full fledged forests within two to three millennia. Weisman also described the surprising state of the region around Ukraine??s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which exploded in April 1986. Despite high levels of radioactivity in the area, biodiversity is flourishing and species are procreating. For Weisman, these examples show that while humans have irrevocably altered the earth’s ecosystem, the evolution of life will continue. Yesterday?...
...kick off promisingly when Gazprom, Russia’s Kremlin-owned energy monopoly, interrupted Ukraine??s natural gas flow through the ironically named “Brotherhood” pipeline. Ever since the downfall of the USSR, former satellite Soviet republics have benefited from heavily subsidized gas prices. Wanting to update Ukraine??s access to “international standards,” Gazprom raised the price of gas from $50 per thousand cubic meters to $230. The more than 400-percent increase was cleverly couched in the Western language of free trade and open international...
Kyrgyzstan’s “tulip revolution” now stands alongside Ukraine??s recent “orange revolution” and Georgia’s ”rose revolution” as the third democratic revolution in a former Soviet state in 18 months. This remarkable turn toward democracy has not been limited to the former USSR; in the last three months, post-Saddam Iraq has held its first democratic elections, Palestinians have freely elected the moderate Mahmoud Abbas, demonstrators have caused the downfall of the Syrian puppet-government in Lebanon and created...
...with government leaders about the country’s economy, the same paper reported that Summers had “found fault with almost every aspect of the government’s reform plan,” telling officials there that what was “going on in Ukraine?? can not be called reform...