This is a vivid study of Russian expansionism and civil insurrection. Has the turmoil reached its peak? How much further will Putin go?It has been a tumultuous year for Ukraine. Last November a handful of middle-class activists took to the streets of Kiev. They were protesting against a decision by Viktor Yanukovych, the countrys burly kleptocratic president, to tear up an association agreement with the European Union. Instead Yanukovych accepted a bail-out from Russia. As Andrew Wilson points out in his vivid study of the Ukraine crisis, nobody could have predicted what happened next. In February Yanukovych fled the country …read more
Source: The Guardian
