Ukraine’s election: the appeal of Victor Yanukovych

Ukraine’s election: the appeal of Victor Yanukovych

Natalia Antonova. By Natalia Antonova
Natalia Antonova is editor of GlobalComment and ArabComment. In her spare time, she writes fiction and screams rude things at football games on TV.

One of the more hilarious editorials on this year’s presidential election in Ukraine, came courtesy of Taras Kuzio, who, among his many achievements, formerly worked for NATO in Kyiv (always a sore subject for some people), and who urged Ukrainians to “stay true to the Orange Revolution” when they went to the polls. I’ve been working in the online medium for far too long, because my initial response could only be summed up with a colloquial term, LOLWAT [definition courtesy of Urban Dictionary]. Not even Yulia Tymoshenko has the requisite gall to remind people of the idealism many of them expressed in 2004, and how they were subsequently punished for it. Continue Reading »

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Renee Martin. By Renee Martin

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Mark Farnsworth. By Mark Farnsworth

Gibson’s features have been hammered out of sheet metal, his eyes dulled by whatever darkness haunts his soul.