You couldn't make this stuff up. Or actually, you probably could. The scans of the document that the website provides have no signatures and no stamps. When Izvestiya alleged that Yushchenko had sold weapons directly to Georgia from the Ukrainian armed forces during the recent war, it came up with some evidence that at the very least looked convincing. Full Story »
Posted by Peter Barnett
An interesting take on the political machinations that are being played out in the run up to the forthcoming elections.
KIEV — While the world’s economic giants may have averted financial collapse through rescue plans and huge infusions of cash, some smaller countries like Ukraine seem to have stumbled with little help on the horizon. Among the most vulnerable states, it seems, are some of the young democracies born after the fall of the Soviet empire, which have seen their economies race ahead under democratic rule and capitalism — only to run smack into a global financial crisis.
The elections in the Ukraine are significant for both the USA and Russia, and the EU. This opinion may, or may not, be factual. what it does highlight is the fact that the politics of the Caucuses may be the the 'Balkans' of the 21st century.