... that culmi-nated in a popular uprising and massacre in Kiev in February 2014 were supposed to make Ukraine a better place. This was Ukraine s second attempt at revolution, a Revolution of Values designed to be more profound, deeper rooted, and longer lasting than the disappointing Orange Revolution of 2004...

... of eastern Ukraine. The crisis is also clearly about much more than just Ukraine. It will therefore have longer-lasting consequences than previous local crises, such as Ukraine s 2004 Orange Revolution, or even the Russian war in Georgia in 2008. The immediate causes were, of course, local. Ukraine has been...

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... invasion Russian cold war MH17 rebel Obama maidan USSR soviet protests orange Nato EU Brics revolution protest nationalism The past is never dead. It s not even past. William Faulkner s famous line definitely applies to the postcommu- nist space: a political, moral, and cultural uni...

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