Yanukovych and the Wreath, or, The Comic Benefits of a Color Revolution

18
May
2010

Some of you may not be familiar with the quickly accumulating blooper reel of the new wave of post-Soviet US-tilting democrats.  First, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili ate his tie while on camera, spawning various Pythonesque spoofs and ensuring his place in Russian comic mythology (not to mention competing with Werner Herzog for gastronomic freakishness).

Not to be outdone, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych recently paid his deep respect to the tomb of the unknown soldier in Kiev.  Yanukovych was ousted in Ukraine’s 2004 election, when face-poisoned yet still-standing  Viktor Yushchenko was swept to power in the Orange Revolution.  Obviously the Ukranians deeply missed Viktor the First, and thus he returned to office in 2010 after winning two rounds of elections.  Yet the democratic revolution ensures that the cameras must always be on – the true definition of transparency in governance.





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