Exciting times to live in, hopefully the people will be able to get rid of the corrupt ruling class.
EDIT:
Just to give you bit of context on corruption... in the UK where I currently live, politicians are going into prisons for faking a couple of thousands of pounds as expense and profiting from that... A couple of thousands...
Compared to that, a couple of years ago, a guy called Bajnai Gordon was the prime minister in Hungary, who is well known by everyone for his act of destroying the whole agricultural economy of eastern Hungary. He did stole all the money from one of the largest companies at the time. Multiple farmers committed suicide, etc.
Years after that, he became a prime minister. Truly mind blowing. Those people are evil, and have cheeks, they deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prisons.
If you are interested about (the politically correct version of) the story, search for "Hajdu-Bet" here:
Thats more of a distraction than anything else. For the juicy stuff, look into the spending obligations on PFI contracts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_finance_initiative#Dev...
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtE8tc3zkyCLdFVBNWF...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/datablog/2010/nov/19/pfi...
The UK does its corruption over the table.
That's redundant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_protests_in_Brazil
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-protests-expand-to-over-o...
In democracies, the people typically do this by voting for someone else. Why isn't that an option in Hungary?
No, the people think they do this, in reality the new boss is pretty much the same as the old boss.
If you're young, Western-minded and willing to work, it's much, much easier to emigrate and leave the hoi paloi to rot under their perennial red overlords, than to stay and fight the system. So people emigrate, and the shit for the rest becomes deeper.
They are all the same, maybe one party called A the other B but the same people are behind all parties, and they form a strong inner circle.
They just give you an illusion of democracy, really.
We have a similar problem with corruption and people being fed up here in the Czech Republic. Traditional parties suffered a big defeat in the last parlimentary elections and 3 new parties got into the parliament, so I'm carefully optimistic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Ukraine_pro-European_Unio...
Putin doesn't want Ukraine joining the EU since it would put "Europe" right on the Russian porch, whereas Putin would prefer to have a buffer of client-states who take their orders from the Kremlin. Ukraine gets most of its energy supplies from Russian natgas, which has been the main "stick" Putin has used to get the Ukraine to toe his line.
Ukraine wants to increase cooperation with Europe, and possibly join EU. This would undermine it's relationship with Russia.
The previous Ukranian president, Viktor Yushchenko, usually sided with the West, and current president, Viktor Yanukovych, wants to preserve friendship with Russia.
Russia obviously doesn't want to lose allies, so it threatened to stop trading, and impose strict sanctions on Ukraine if they agreed to partnership with Europe.
Some Ukrainians dislike Yanukovych for siding with Russia instead of Europe, thus causing protests.
If you have more knowledge about this situation, feel free to correct me if I err.
The president? The people in the west (i.e. the ones protesting here)? The people in the east who only speak Russian?
It's inaccurate to think of pre-soviet europe as composed of western european style states.
Geopolitically and historically this (I'm Romanian) has been one shitty place with a lot of influences: Tsarist Russia, Soviet Union, Ottoman Empire, the Huns, the Mongols, the Romans etc. You could not have developed a western style state in this environment.
I'm not implying western Europe had it easier, but just different and it benefited them by the looks of things.
However, from history lessons, at least in my own country things were starting to pick up and it's my belief the situation would've been much better without WWII and especially without the communists.
which kind of resources?
> Half of citizines do not speak ukraininan language, they identify themselves as Russians.
2/3 declared Ukrainian an their native, moreover there is distinct movement of Russian(!)-speaking anti-Russia(!) pro-Ukraine people. Source: living in Russian speaking Ukrainian city
>The other part is only waiting for a moment to gtfo there.
meh
The person that is live streaming said this is on street Bankova, I think this is it: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m8!1m3!1d3!2d30....
