viktor yanukovych
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Robert Reich: No one thing delegitimizes Donald Trump's presidency, but the whole picture keeps getting darker. - In the era of Mr. Trump, it is interesting and dismaying, to see who thinks the limelight — by which I mean ratings, popularity, celebrity and relevance — is more important than long-held principles, or basic truth-telling.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin is proof that tough guys don't rule best.
- The Ukraine crisis owes its roots to a deal America made and broke with the recently deceased Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
- Sunday's elections could help stabilize the country if the new government vigorously attacks its long-standing culture of corruption
- Sen. Ben Cardin will join a congressional delegation headed to Ukraine this weekend to monitor the country's presidential election, which is taking place amid that country's tense standoff with Russia.
- Some things are binary. They either are or they aren't. You can't be sort of pregnant or partially certifiable; it's one or the other — like being a Yankees or a Red Sox fan.
- Russia's land grab in the Crimea has created the most serious European security crisis since the end of the Cold War.
- Hillary Clinton touched the 'third rail' of foreign policy by making a Hitler reference in relation to the crisis in Ukraine.
- Amid the storm created by Russian President Vladimir Putin's extralegal incursion into the Crimean peninsula, the U.S. and Europe risk allowing an event equally important to Ukraine's future to fall out of focus: the May 25 election in which the divided country is set to select a new president. The credibility, inclusivity and peacefulness of this event are vital to U.S. and European interests.
- When Raissa Howera was growing up in the Washington, D.C. area, she took part in protests supporting independence for Ukraine, the land of her paternal family.
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- The U.S., Europe and Russia must work together to keep the former Soviet republic from spiraling out of control
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- First Putin denies Syria's chemical use, now he wants us to trust him on a diplomatic solution?