Optimism and Challenges

UKRAINE - Report 25 Feb 2014 by Vladimir Dubrovskiy and Dmytro Boyarchuk

Executive Summary After two months of peaceful protests and a month of deadly attacks that left 100 protestors dead, the Yanukovych dictatorship has collapsed. The day after agreeing to limit his authority, the president fled Kyiv.But the story is far from over. Viktor Yanukovych is refusing to recognize the new authorities, and we are observing separatist tactics in the southeast and Crimea, as Moscow threatens to “protect” Russians in Ukraine. We remain quite optimistic about Ukraine’s political prospects, since after the bloody events of February, hardly anyone, even former Yanukovych al...

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