"Free Ukraine"

[Subhash.Jaireth at GA.GOV.AU]

Friends,

It is nice to see that the list is showing a bit of political colour.

What has amazed me most about the media coverage here in Australia and I
suppose elsewhere that the whole 'struggle' is described within a clichéd
binary of the pro-western Yushchenko and 'pro-Russian/pro Putin Yanukovich.
Isn't it time to educate the journalists that these simple binaries don't
work any more. In fact their use glosses over lots of intricate social,
cultural and political details. Interestingly Anne Applebaum recently
published a short comment in the Sydney Morning Herald which, to my great
disappointment argued in terms of the same binaries.

After the collapse of the Soviet empire it seems only in Czechoslovakia
people had the courage to decide their fate/future peacefully. 


Cheers

Subhash



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