Slava Johnson from Chadbourne & Parke's Kyiv office has written a great piece on the future of Ukraine under Yushenko.
In particular she highlights just how many established interests he is going to have to bring onside to get his way and the fact that he has just a year to do so. Considering how difficult it has been for Putin to implement his reforms in Russia versus an established bureaucracy and regional fiefdoms with a popularity rating that has stayed over 60% even during the social payments fiasco at the beginning of the year. Yushenko, by contrast is the President of a divided country from which he is struggling to remove the epithet bitterly.
She starts down the road of debunking the US financing of the Orange Revolution albeit does not really nail the point. In short there was US money that helped but it was only there because Putin's thugs gave them the opportunity.
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29 March 2005
Ukraine - The Future's Bright the Future's Orange
Slava Johnson from Chadbourne & Parke's Kyiv office has written a great piece on the future of Ukraine under Yushenko.
In particular she highlights just how many established interests he is going to have to bring onside to get his way and the fact that he has just a year to do so. Considering how difficult it has been for Putin to implement his reforms in Russia versus an established bureaucracy and regional fiefdoms with a popularity rating that has stayed over 60% even during the social payments fiasco at the beginning of the year. Yushenko, by contrast is the President of a divided country from which he is struggling to remove the epithet bitterly.
She starts down the road of debunking the US financing of the Orange Revolution albeit does not really nail the point. In short there was US money that helped but it was only there because Putin's thugs gave them the opportunity.
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