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bemildred

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3. I'm not getting into it right now, people have lost their minds.

Reply to yurbud (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 25, 2014, 12:27 PM

Apr 2014

However, the elections are a big problem for the interim government. And the closer the date gets without some semblance of order and control by the government, the bigger the problem gets. And it can't just wait either, it has very little popular support as it is. You can't be a kamikaze government and ram though painful reforms without some shreds of popular support, it won't last.

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Ukraine crisis: West faces election nightmare [View all] bemildred Apr 2014 OP

I thought the West's nightmare would be that the coup government would lose yurbud Apr 2014 #1

I'm not getting into it right now, people have lost their minds. bemildred Apr 2014 #3

unfortunately, the "painful reforms" is why the west backed them in the first place yurbud Apr 2014 #4

It's a problem all right. nt bemildred Apr 2014 #6

How about using the elections as a tool to expose Russia? DetlefK Apr 2014 #2

That works for me. bemildred Apr 2014 #5

it would be a good opportunity to expose what both Russia AND the West have to offer Ukraine yurbud Apr 2014 #7

Good luck. Yikes, what a mess. n/t Jefferson23 Apr 2014 #8

How kind of the BBC to understand whose "nightmare" it is... JackRiddler Apr 2014 #9

Only the west sees this as a problem. Igel Apr 2014 #10

My, sounds like a mirror image of what happened in Kiev... JackRiddler Apr 2014 #11