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		<title>An Introduction to Democracy with Ukrainian Characteristics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Shuster / Kiev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boris Kolesnikov, Ukraine&#8217;s powerful Deputy Prime Minister, spent the last day of the election season, Oct. 26, nursing a bit of hangover in his office with a pack of Marlboros and a bottomless cup of espresso. The day before, he had celebrated his 50th birthday in his home region of Donetsk, the coal-mining heartland of the ruling Party of Regions. So he did not have much energy left for campaigning when he went back to Kiev, the capital, the next day. The press conference he was scheduled to give at the InterContinental hotel, where the Party of Regions had set up its campaign headquarters, was forced to proceed without him. The reason was the traffic, his aides explained. Kolesnikov did not feel like slogging through it to go meet the press. And besides, his party knew that these elections were a lock. Their outcome had pretty much been decided last year, when Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the opposition, was sentenced to seven years in prison. Her trial for abuse of office was condemned as a political sham throughout the West. But however painful the blowback has been for President Viktor Yanukovych, the political dividends at home were worth it. &#8220;It was a question of survival for him,&#8221; says Vadim Karasyov, a political analyst in Kiev. &#8220;Sure, he lost face in Europe, but if Yulia had been free, she would have long organized an uprising against him.&#8221; With his rival locked away, Yanukovych&#8217;s Party of Regions faced competition from a fractious cluster of newcomer parties — one led by a boxing champion, another headlined by a famous footballer — none of which posed much of a challenge. (MORE: Nunn-Lugar No Longer?) So when the votes were tallied on Monday, the Party of Regions held on to its majority in parliament. What remains of Tymoshenko&#8217;s party took a distant second place under the leadership of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who has struggled to match her charisma. &#8220;This opposition poses no threat to us,&#8221; said Anna German, the leading spin doctor for the Party of Regions,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=52318&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden in Afghanistan: Soviet Veterans of a Previous War Compare and Tremble</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Wendle / Kunduz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even after three decades, Gennady Tseuma remembers the wavering call to prayer that went up clear over the hillside village. It floated out over the fields and river and pierced the early morning hush on the Bangi Bridge. Tseuma, then a Soviet soldier assigned to a small force guarding the river crossing in northern Afghanistan&#8217;s Kunduz province, recalls a feeling of dread when he heard the sound. Like many of the conscripts serving in the Red Army in Afghanistan, Tseuma was bored and undisciplined, and after 10 months of service, curiosity finally got the best of him. The decision to investigate the call to prayer cost him the life he had known up to that point. &#8220;Our checkpoint was close to the village. Every morning the mullah did the call to prayer. It was totally new to me. I didn&#8217;t understand what was going on. I thought maybe they were killing people or something,&#8221; Tseuma tells TIME. &#8220;So, one day, early in the morning, I got off my base to take a look. When I got close to the mosque there was an old man sitting there. Then suddenly men with guns surrounded me and captured me. After that, the mujahedin told me to convert to Islam or they would kill me. I decided it was better to live than to die, so I became a Muslim.&#8221; (PHOTOS: A Long and Distant War: Photos from Afghanistan, 1988-2009) For the past 29 years, Tseuma and maybe around a hundred other Soviet POW/MIAs have lived through some of the most violent history of one of the most violent countries on earth. After serving in the European-style Soviet army, they lived and sometimes fought as Afghans. Those of them still alive have an extraordinary window into Afghan society combined with unique insight into the historical parallels between the Soviet defeat and the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces at the end of 2014. Life has improved in the past 10 years but Tseuma — or Nek Mohammad as he was renamed after his<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=34563&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Frank Interview with Ukraine&#8217;s President: &#8216;Politics Is the Ability to Control Your Emotions&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Shuster / Kiev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly before the start of Euro 2012, which is jointly hosted by Ukraine and Poland, TIME&#8217;s Simon Shuster sat down to interview Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Kiev about the controversies surrounding his ongoing feud with former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is now sitting in prison on abuse-of-office charges. Many heads of European government have said they will boycott the finals of the European soccer championship rather than be seen sitting with Yanukovych. Here are excerpts from the interview: TIME: I covered your presidential campaign in 2009, and I remember the hopes that were associated with it. There was the hope of ending the political gridlock that followed the Orange Revolution of 2004. When you won the presidency in 2010, your team was strong. A lot was accomplished. I saw the preparations for Euro 2012, and they look great. But there is one question that is threatening to spoil the whole picture: the Tymoshenko scandal. The fact that your rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, went to prison during your administration looks like a political vendetta. Why were you unable to avoid the Tymoshenko scandal? Why did you let this happen? Yanukovych: O.K., I will be concise. Let me follow the events as they happened. First, when I came to power, my team, my Cabinet of ministers, we all saw that we have a catastrophic situation with gas prices. When we paid our first monthly bills with Gazprom [Russia's natural-gas-export monopoly], we realized that our income from the sale of gas in Ukraine covers only half of those bills. We paid $1 billion per month for gas, and $500 million of that was pure losses. That is $6 billion per year. During the financial crisis, and even without the crisis, nobody wants to pay extra money, especially not so much money. And there was no explanation for this &#8230; How could the [former] government have agreed to sign such a contract? This is where the crux of the matter was buried. It turns out that the Tymoshenko government was reviewing this issue<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=30753&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Social Media Group Tries to Salvage Ukraine&#8217;s Reputation</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/06/08/a-social-media-group-tries-to-salvage-ukraines-reputation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Marson / Kiev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For months, Ukraine has been under fire over its preparations to co-host the European soccer championship. Critics accused hoteliers of price gouging, claimed the government was directing cash for infrastructure developments to insider firms and warned fans to stay at home over fears of racist attacks. Now, as fans begin to pour into the country ahead of the first game on Saturday, Ukrainians are fighting back to rescue their country&#8217;s reputation. A group of Ukrainians has linked up via social networks to form &#8220;Friendly Ukraine&#8221; &#8212; a nongovernmental initiative that offers free accommodation, guided tours and interpreting services to foreign fans. &#8220;An image has been formed of Ukraine as a frightening and barbaric nation where wild people live,&#8221; says Viktoria Svitlova, the groups&#8217; coordinator. &#8220;We don&#8217;t deny that there are lots of problems, but we want to show that ordinary citizens are civilized and have European views. That&#8217;s why we created the initiative.&#8221; When Ukraine was selected as tournament co-host with Poland in 2007, officials touted it as the former Soviet Republic&#8217;s chance to show it was ready to join Europe&#8216;s mainstream. Three years earlier, the Orange Revolution had brought a pro-Western president to power, bringing hope that Ukraine could cast off its Soviet past. But preparations were marred by slow progress. A new president, Viktor Yanukovych, came to power in 2010 and sped up work, but this was accompanied by corruption allegations connected with key infrastructure projects, such as new airports and stadiums. Officials denied any wrongdoing. At the center of criticism has been Yanukovych, who stands accused of rolling back the democratic freedoms that the Orange Revolution brought. Some European leaders have said they will boycott the tournament in protest at the jailing of his main political rival, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, on abuse-of-office charges. Western officials say she has been jailed in order to sideline her from politics, and the EU has shelved an agreement that had been aimed at integrating Ukraine economically and politically into the union. As the tournament approached, Michel Platini, the chief<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=29682&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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