Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com “Ex-President Viktor Yanukovych headed a mafia structure in Ukraine that spread across different state structures,” Ukraine’s acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky has charged. He further disclosed that Yanukovych’s mafia-like organization, syndicated nationwide, was set up in 2010 and had cost Ukraine upwards of $100 billion. Yet more shocking […]
UNITED NATIONS — The fate of Ukraine, one of Eastern Europe’s largest countries, hangs in the balance. On the one hand, ”spontaneous” political demonstrations and government building seizures by pro-Russian separatists, are bringing an air of deliberately planned disorder to the country’s eastern regions bordering Russia. On the other, rhetorical posturing by the United States […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Olexander Muzychko, the leader of a right-wing nationalist political group in Ukraine, was gunned down on March 24 in the western Ukrainian city of Rivne. Mr. Muzychko was best known in and outside Ukraine as an extreme nationalist with an anti-Russian penchant. Moscow tried to blame him as […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Less than a week after the spectacular closing ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided for an encore and invaded the sovereignty of neighboring Ukraine. The chill winds of the Cold War have returned to Europe and the halls of diplomacy. Taking advantage of Ukraine’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com While President and commander-in-chief Xi Jinping is generally credited with boosting China’s global profile, chinks in the armor of China’s aggressive foreign policy have also become obvious. Supremo Xi was so wrapped up with the “strategic partnership” he put together with the disgraced president Viktor Yanukovych that he […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Regime change in Ukraine proved to be relatively easy compared to the much tougher, far more consequential task of keeping the nation from breaking into two parts. And this is despite the volcanic eruption of violence and bloodshed that has riveted the world in recent weeks. Now the […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner Who lost Ukraine? This is the question many Western policymakers are asking following recent dramatic events in the former Soviet republic. The country’s pro-Kremlin leader, President Viktor Yanukovych, is on the verge of permanently consigning Ukraine to Russia’s sphere of influence. This would be a major victory for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Situated geographically between two blocs, divided culturally and religiously between two civilizations, and now placed in the political conundrum of choosing between East and West, Ukraine is again object the competing interests. And amid the political/gravitational pull of the two sides are the swirling clouds of Ukraine’s tumultuous 20th […]