I graduated both school and uni when Soviet Union ceased to exist as entity.
me too. Post-Soviet education in Russia and Ukraine are still pretty much same; we have different national narratives, but the basic values and organization is same.
[quotewhy only two parties? No three?][/quote]
dozens of parties, but only two are real players. Biggest third ones are Green (named after u) and Libertarian. Electoral system, "winner-takes-all", or single mandate constituencies, warrants a two-party traffic. In Britain, Canada, Australia same system, but much stronger third parties; but British Lib-Dems never make government, even partake in it.
"the most obsolete in the world" election system.
it's a paleolithic system (the electoral college electing the Pres; reflective of the confederation reality of the 1770s); but there is no "adminresurs", not in same proportions as inRussia. If u're trying to make a comparison between American and Russian political competition, there is none. No comparison. Not under Putin.
Ukraine is something 68% of Ukranian SSR economy-wise.
the SSR economy was unsustainable, if inflated. 68% of a deadman.
So there is nothing origional about Yush, except his "Western orientation".
u don't believe what u're saying. Yusch=Kuchma. I understand u've been watching a lot of Misha Leontiev and can't forgive the Oranges for being unpatriotic Russians; but "nothing original about Yusch" is really too much. That's like saying "West Germany was a capitalist country based on exploitation of the workers, so it was basically same as Nazis." Pardon my referral to the irrelevant reality, but Kuchma ordered abduction (and probably murder) of a journalist; Kuchma falsified elections like cracking peanuts, Kuchma used coercion to force people's votes, Kuchma bugged every office and every phone line. It was notorious, I remember a pro-Kuchma speaker of the parl saying his office was bugged by secret service. Now u have nothing better than to point to the Russian origins of a suspect, implying he was framed because of his Russian origins...Dude, stop wathcing Leontiev; u know how many people of Russian origin in Ukraine and in the government. Dig Timoshenko's origins, u'll find something. That's a known one: in Ukraine, origins are nothing, especially Russian origins, because it's totally impossible to distinguish Russian from Ukrainian otherwise than by culture. Not even language is an indicator, because half of ethnic Ukrs speak Russian as the native. Origins are nothing; political orientations matters.
And BTW, another fact: Kuchma sent Ukrainian troops to Iraq, Yusch withdrew them.
