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The Broth and its Many Cooks: Ukraine in-between elections

March 10, 2013 - Example Author - New Eastern Europe newsletter

The country on the border of West and East, mired in the habits of the previous epoch, approaching a new historic waterline, and all of its tensions and challenges are becoming more acute.

Yegor Vasylyev, an analyst specialising in politics and transition of post-Soviet states, discusses Ukraine in-between elections.

To read the full article visit: https://www.neweasterneurope.eu/node/693

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