Jews in Kiev are told to flee the city. It's like a re-run of the early 20th century. http://t.co/ukzy37CDz8
— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) February 23, 2014
So Citigroup's $1 million man http://t.co/OwkYtEoPM2 is gonna help "reform" Ukraine's economy? http://t.co/SQBYfte8JQ Lucky them.
— billmon (@billmon1) February 23, 2014
Julia Ioffe, Russian emigre, on the ground for TNR, yesterday:
… Things moved fast today—Yanukovich denying his resignation; the security forces switching sides; the parliament ousting him and setting new elections; his political allies, and perhaps Yanukovich himself, fleeing the country; members of his party in parliament fleeing the party; his jailed political rival Yulia Tymoshenko being popped out of a prison hospital and boarding a plane for Kiev—but it all moved peacefully, joyously, and seemingly in the right direction. This was no longer a referendum on the EU or Russia, who stood helplessly by as Ukrainians finally determined their own fate without them; this was not about the east or west of the country. Today was about getting rid of a man who had stolen a lot of their money and killed a lot of their countrymen.
There will, inevitably, be a hangover. I won’t try to predict what’s going to happen in Ukraine in the coming weeks and months, but here are some of the moving pieces to watch.
East and West…
The Crimea…
Russia…
Europe…
Tymoshenko…
Demobilization…
The nationalists…
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