Ukrainians, on the other hand, are close to us in their culture and mentality.

Most ordinary Ukrainians desperately want to be part of Europe.

The attitude of many Ukrainian voters today is reflected well enough in this Facebook comment

How individual citizens of Ukraine react to the identified lack of this basic human right?

Some Ukrainians became more careful in their online communications and tended to self censorship, while the others started to use VPNs to circumvent the bans or moved to alternative communication and information platforms.

In total, the number of ethnic Ukrainians who fought in the ranks of the Soviet Army is estimated from 4.5 million to 7 million.

Many Ukrainians feel that the US indeed, most of the West has given up on their country.

The fate of the Ukrainians and Belarusians, who primarily worked as serfs, changed little at first under Russian rule.

A Ukrainian newspaper reported on the preferences of Ukrainian ministers, several of whom have watches that cost more than 30,000.

On a smaller scale, the migration of Ukrainians to the Czech Republic, Bulgarians to Turkey, and British citizens to Spain is also noteworthy.

Ukrainians are people of the watershed we live on either one side or the other of a great divide.

At the same time, it is critically important to reach not only Ukrainian citizens but also international audience, which means producing qualitative information in foreign languages.

Ukrainian voters are fickle. They voted against the incumbent powers in the presidential elections of 1994, 2004, and 2010.

Ukrainian foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin reacted to the backlash on Twitter, referring to what Ukraine believes to be illegal occupation of Crimea by Russia

Many historians there argue, in a reading of history that is violently disputed by many of their Russian colleagues, that the famine was engineered to wipe out the Ukrainians as a people.

The 1989 census recorded 341,000 ethnic Russians, or 6.3 percent of the population, 52,000 Ukrainians and 100,000 Greeks in Georgia.

Now it is necessary to stand by those in Ukraine who see a European future for their country, to open the southern corridor via Nabucco, and to accelerate development of a common European energy market.

The EU s talks with Ukraine on a proposed Association Agreement, for example, provide some leverage, which the EU should not hesitate to use.

Well real organized crime on the Internet goes back about 10 years when a group of gifted Ukrainian hackers developed a website, which led to the industrialization of cybercrime.

While 40 of Ukrainians, based mainly in Yanukovych s electoral heartland in the east and south of the country, would prefer to join the Customs Union, 60 of voters see their future with or in the EU.

That tells Ukrainian taxpayers either that they are paying their public servants too much, or that their public servants have other ways of getting money to buy watches that they would not be able to afford otherwise.

When Viktor Yanukovych was elected president in February, many Ukrainians hoped his victory would end five years of political infighting under former President Viktor Yushchenko and lead to increased stability, reform, and national unity.

Now, more than ever, we must believe this, for Russian troops wearing Ukrainian uniforms have entered our country, because Ukrainian soldiers are refusing to carry out orders to crush those who are demonstrating to defend our democracy.

WASHINGTON, DC United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton s visit to Ukraine on July 4 5 provides an important opportunity to reassure Ukrainians that the US remains committed to Ukraine s sovereignty and democratic evolution.

Fortunately, given the Union s attraction for most ordinary Ukrainians, there is still hope that simple realism will persuade Yanukovych and Ukraine s ruling elite to return to a path that would allow for the association agreement to be signed.

So it is no surprise that Putin is trying to place the Maidan movement beyond the pale by emphasizing the OUN s passing, if bloody, alliance with the Nazis. But the Great Russia nationalism that he has stirred up to mobilize popular support for his Ukraine policy is hardly more appealing.