Looking for Ukraine -- Tim Judah, New York Review Of Books
Sloviansk—Every now and then I can hear distant explosions and bursts of gunfire. But most of the time, here in the center of Sloviansk, which since early April has become eastern Ukraine’s separatist stronghold, everything is quiet. Since the small town is chopped up by barricades and many businesses and factories have closed down, there is not much going on, so that when the wind blows you can hear it shimmer the leaves of the silver birches that line the streets. If you were looking for war here, it would be hard to find.
Ice creams are still getting through the checkpoints around town and there is a steady stream of people buying them. As I chose a chocolate bear, Irina, aged fifty, who sells them, told me that she liked being here among people, because the worst thing in this situation was being at home, alone and anxious.
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My Comment: Tim Judah in his New York Review Of Books' post is basically summarizing what I have been saying for the past two months .... the blow-back from February's revolution is the implosion of Ukraine as we know it.
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Is it too late to stop this crisis? Will Poroshenko shange things or just stay to the old system? If no one get majority in the election it is the next part wil be in June, if that happens is it to late, thats my questions for the day.
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