Orange Revolution
Trump scandal threatens to derail Ukraine’s anti-corruption efforts
Ukrainians are accustomed to powerful forces meddling in their judicial system, Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and expert on central and Eastern Europe, tells The World’s host, Marco Werman. But even as they find corruption foisted on them by their most important ally in Washington, DC, Ukrainians have remained determined to root out unethical practices in their own country.
A Ukrainian TV news host mixes work with protesting in the streets
For some in Ukraine, the mounting protests for integration with the European Union is about more than politics. That’s one reason Espreso TV’s Anastasia Melnyk can host a morning news show in Kiev and then join the protests in the city’s main square.
Ukrainians find themselves stuck firmly between the EU and Russia
Ukraine is backing away from its plan to join the EU and that has spurred mass demonstrations. Russia is against Ukraine having free trade relations with Europe, and Ukraine’s president says his economically-struggling country needs to maintain its important trade ties with Russia.
Beyond Class Part III: Class in the Shadow of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution
Revolutions, it is said, need the support of the middle class to be successful; In Ukraine, seven years after the Orange Revolution, a TV producer wonders whether it was worth it, as her nation slips back into its corrupt, pre-revolutionary past.
