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Oleh Rybachuk: ‘There is no model for post-Soviet development, just decay’

Mon, Dec 28 2009 14:22 CET

byJames Marson - The Kyiv Post

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Oleh Rybachuk: ‘There is no model for post-Soviet development, just decay’

The National Museum of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) memorial complex in the southern outskirts of the Pechersk district of central Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on the picturesque hills on the right-bank of the Dnieper River.


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KP: How much will the country’s direction change under a new president? How will the path differ under Yulia Tymoshenko or Victor Yanukovych?

OR: I think it’s not so much about direction, but speed – how quickly the country can move. Both Tymoshenko and Yanukovych will tell you that the decision is made: Ukraine is European, part of the European Union. In real terms, it’s that direction. So we have a train and, on the leading locomotive, we have Europe. But the speed and the way you go are clearly not fast. I don’t believe that some newly elected Ukrainian leadership would come with the slogan ‘Back to the U.S.S.R.’ or relationship with Belarus and Russia.

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Anonymous Aries Tue, Dec 29 2009 21:58 CET
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Eu is no panacea it should be a begining and not an end
Beware


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