Monday, May 26, 2014

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- May 26, 2014



Ukraine’s Chocolate King Wins -- Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast

Exit polls show billionaire Petro Poroshenko with over 50 percent of the vote as pro-Russian militants blocked the polls in the Eastern provinces.

KIEV, Ukraine — Pro-Russian separatists in the embattled east of Ukraine got their way today, marring a presidential election that went smoothly across the rest of the country and was being endorsed by poll observers as the cleanest in the 23 years since Ukraine broke from the Soviet Union.

Separatist leaders had vowed to stop the vote in the easternmost provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, and with a stepping up of violence in the run-up to the polls—including abducting election officials, storming local election commission offices and threatening poll workers—they managed to confirm the worst fears of election observers.

The disruption in the east added to worries that the election’s legitimacy will be challenged by Moscow, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s belated endorsement of the election and promise to respect the outcome.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

In Ukraine, a vote to turn foe into friend -- Christian Science Monitor editorial

Poroshenko Elected Ukraine President; Putin Dodges Promise To 'Respect' Results -- Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes

Between Guns and Disgust in Eastern Ukraine -- Marc Champion, Bloomberg

Experts Debate Effect of Sanctions On Russia -- Jim Randle, VOA

Energy Prices are Big Part of Ukraine Crisis -- Al Pessin, VOA

Top 10 reasons why many Egyptians will vote for Sisi -- Tawfik Hamid, Al Jazeera

How to deal with Chinese espionage -- Eliot A. Cohen, Washington Post

What's behind China's territorial spats? -- CNN

China’s Xinjiang After the Bombings: Going from Bad to Worse -- Allen R. Carlson, National Interest

The hopes of North Korea’s ‘Black Market Generation’ -- Yeon-mi Park, Washington Post

Five big challenges for Modi's new government in India -- Shyamantha Asokan and Rajesh Kumar Singh, Reuters

Euroskeptic election surge threatens governments across EU -- Reuters

Established Parties Rocked by Anti-Europe Vote -- Alan Cowell and James Kanter, NYT

Beware the trumpeting of triumphalist Euroscepticism -- Paul Gillespie, Irish Times

The Golden Age Is Now: For all the world’s problems, human beings have never had it better. -- Yevgeniy Feyman, City Journal

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