Ukraine, Russia: On Tymoshenko, Yanukovych and Putin · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Foreign Notes writes about Yulia Tymoshenko's TV address and Viktor Yanukovych's “shadow opposition government” – as well as Vladimir Putin's misrepresentation of Ukraine's Russophone population in his Time Magazine interview and a subsequent reaction of the head of Donetsk region, who “emphasized that the Russian-speaking population of his oblast, which comprise over 80% of the total, has not experienced any such pressure. ‘I don't have any examples of this,’ he declared.”