A spirited protest in central Kyiv embodies the ethos of a new, civic Ukraine whose people - despite their politicians - have internalised the values of the “orange revolution”. Alexander J Motyl reports for openDemocracy
Ukraine in late November 2004 is in the grip of two refusals. The refusal of the state machinery to acknowledge the truth of the presidential election result is met by
Two years ago, in November-December 2004, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians peacefully occupied downtown Kyiv in protest against the falsification of presidential elections. That popular uprising, known as the Orange
Here's a puzzle. Throughout the 1990s, Ukraine and Russia were quasi-democracies with authoritarian features. By 2001, they began moving in the direction of greater despotism. But then their
The most remarkable thing about Ukraine's electoral campaign is how eerily European it looks. Seventeen months ago, in the run-up to the fraudulent presidential elections that sparked the
2006 began dramatically for Ukraine. On 4 January, Kyiv (Kiev) and Moscow signed a deal that ended their increasingly acrimonious gas dispute and resumed Russian gas supplies to Ukraine and
When Ukraines democratically elected president, Viktor Yushchenko, sacked his government on 8 September including his prime minister and former political ally, Yulia Tymoshenko alarm bells went off and commentators
