Orange Revolution

Ukraine shows that, when pressure is applied, Potemkin institutions reveal themselves for what they really are. The lessons for countries in the neighborhood, most of all Russia, should be apparent, as, although there are major differences between Ukraine and its anxious neighbor, at the most fundamental levels, the institutional stagnation is the same.

We cannot agree to a situation when in the 21st century an autocrat - possessed by the nostalgia for the Soviet empire - leads the EU by the nose and deprives Ukrainian people of the longed for perspective of living in freedom and democracy.