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The Ukrainian ‘W’

By Alexander J. Motyl

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych bears a striking resemblance to former President George W. Bush.

Although Bush was born rich and Yanukovych poor, both were rowdy as youths, with the former drinking and carousing and the latter serving two jail terms for hooliganism.

Eventually both became serious, went into politics and became governors of large and economically important states — Texas and Donetsk — that served as springboards for their presidential ambitions. Both are — or claim to be — deeply religious: Bush a born-again Christian, Yanukovych an Orthodox Christian, and both love to hunt.

Like Bush, Yanukovych has an embarrassing proclivity to get his facts wrong. He has confused poet Anna Akhmatova with his billionaire backer Rinat Akhmetov, the Jewish writer Isaac Babel with the German socialist August Bebel, Slovenia with Slovakia and genocide with genetics. He has called playwright Anton Chekhov a ... Читать дальше »

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The Ukrainian ‘W’

Россия вооружилась надувными танками