After the Revolution

Condoleeza Rice told Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko today that the United States supports a recent request that NATO accept Ukraine into its Membership Action Plan (MAP).
Rice and Yushchenko spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Yushchenko, Parliamentary Speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko all signed a letter Jan. 2 requesting Ukraine be considered for eventual NATO membership.
NATO will […]

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The Freedom House Freedom in the World 2008 survey, covering events from Jan. 1, 2007, to Dec. 31, 2007, indicated that in Georgia, political rights and civil liberties had diminished since the previous poll for the second year in a row. According to the report, the government restricted political rights by calling a “state of […]

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Between 2003 and 2005, Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan all overthrew their leaders with mass protests held after disputed elections. These movements were some of the most recent in a wave of mostly non-violent revolutions in post-communist societies in Europe and Asia. They have been collectively called color or flower revolutions after the symbols protesters chose […]

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