tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post8073790796052365962..comments2023-10-28T12:01:47.929+00:00Comments on Edward Lucas: New Ukrainian columnEdward Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369936559712607693noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-20694159540439846352010-03-04T20:15:34.120+00:002010-03-04T20:15:34.120+00:00Enjoyed your piece about Ukraine. It's great ...Enjoyed your piece about Ukraine. It's great news to me to see that you are doing this.<br /><br />Recently, I lost a very near and dear friend to cancer. He was good investigative reporter who wrote hundreds of articles about Ukraine, it's people, its struggle for freedom and justice and about its struggle with crime and corruption. <br /><br />Besides being a good writer, he was a very funny man who loved anecdotes, a man dedicated to his son, his friends, his principles and his work and he was an excellent cook.<br /><br />Roman was buried in Arlington three weeks ago. He was like a brother to me. He will be missed dearly by many good people and hated by a few kleptocrats and reptiles back in Ukraine.<br /><br />One such rat, has crawled out of the woodwork again denying having had anything to do with Gongadze's death, defending his old friend Krawchenko and blaming the whole affair on Roman. <br /><br />Imagine that, what a surprise. The kleptocrat and rodent is upset and his feelings are hurt.<br /><br />What more can I say. It should prove to be an interesting decade for Ukraine and it's people.<br /><br />It proves to be a very different Ukraine than the one Roman would liked to have seen. Its leaders should be given a chance to change. However, knowing most of them..my hopes aren't high.<br /><br />Keep up the good work. I enjoy your writing style.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-63974938582175415522010-03-04T10:38:08.178+00:002010-03-04T10:38:08.178+00:00Hello!
Just for information, some EU NGOs are wor...Hello!<br /><br />Just for information, some EU NGOs are working on the topic. Here is a report about which EU state consulates are better, which worse, and in what categories. http://www.batory.org.pl/doc/Visa_Report_2009.pdf. It concerns EU consulates in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Moldova.<br /><br />It would be perfect to find partners in those Eastern-European countries and really follow an intensive and "posledovatelnaja" campaign.<br /><br />We will be addressing Czech officials on this issue, since I represent a Czech NGO.<br /><br />Good luck to all of us on it! :)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12773089765849360659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-11184049460170922152010-03-03T18:07:45.012+00:002010-03-03T18:07:45.012+00:00Kudos on this excellent piece. Visas and humano-ce...Kudos on this excellent piece. Visas and humano-centric policies matter a great deal in the region, and the U.S. and the EU have failed miserably on this. While BMD, NATO accession and energy security are important issues, it has completely hijacked the agenda, both for EU and U.S. relations with Poland and Ukraine.<br /><br />As you mentioned in your previous article, Poland's economy is <i>growing</i> yet we've spent the past 5 years chattering about missile defense, when all that Poles want is visa free travel to the U.S. NATO accession for Ukraine, a non-starter in many ways, matters more in the political and identity discourse then it does for security, yet we continue to beat the drum on it. Maybe Ukrainians would actually support NATO if they could easily visit NATO countries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com