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Europe | Ukraine-Russia gas spat: some background and context

Newshoggers.com found this 1/3/2009 on europe.theoildrum.com

The 2004 orange revolution put Ukraine on the map, as a new, spunky member of the "democratic world" against the axis of evil and other assorted dictatorships, a group that Russia was beginning to join in the White House view. Never mind that Yuschenko was initially more pro-Russian than ...