Washington Post: A choice for Ukraine
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has a dilemma. He took office last year promising to lead his country toward economic integration with the European Union, which is what Ukraine’s big industrialists as well as most of its citizens want. But Mr. Yanukovych also wants to concentrate power in his own hands and to punish his political enemies — especially the leaders of the 2004 Orange Revolution, which reversed his previous, fraudulent election as president. He has been slow to realize that he cannot do both. Mr. Yanukovych made his first foreign trip to Brussels — no doubt irritating Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who directed the Ukrainian’s failed attempt to steal the presidency in 2004. Read full story here.