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Volume 4, issue 08 August 2010 Kharkiv was not originally included among Ukraine`s four first choice Euro 2012 host cities, but the East Ukrainian capital forced itself into contention by pushing ahead impressively with a variety of infrastructure projects. This determination was finally rewarded when Kharkiv replaced Dnipropetrovsk as a UEFA host city in 2009.

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Volume 4, issue 08 August 2010

Kharkiv was not originally included among Ukraine`s four first choice Euro 2012 host cities, but the East Ukrainian capital forced itself into contention by pushing ahead impressively with a variety of infrastructure projects. This determination was finally rewarded when Kharkiv replaced Dnipropetrovsk as a UEFA host city in 2009.

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Putinism and patriotism

Ukraine lacks the nationalistic consensus needed to prop up a Kremlin-style ‘Power Vertical’

Disillusioned but doggedly democratic

Does Yanukovych’s victory represent the end of the Orange Revolution or its final vindication?

Russia’s revenge

The Kremlin was publicly humiliated by the Orange Revolution but Putin’s patience has paid off

Still stuck in no man’s land

20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall post-Orange Ukraine remains geopolitically isolated

Democracy fatigue

If you want to know quite how flawed modern democracy really is, it helps to talk to a Russian.

Russia’s turn to suffer Ukraine fatigue

Ukraine’s new government is reorienting the country but Kremlin may ultimately be left frustrated

Too tired to fight

As President Yanukovych’s counter-revolution gathers pace formerly vocal democrats remain muted

Bolshevik bard

In Kharkiv Ukraine’s national poet sits easily with the stormtroopers of the communist revolution

Politically immature territorially intact

Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine has been viewed by the outside world almost exclusively in terms of its enormous potential. A famous Deutsche Bank report published in late 1991 identified Ukraine as...