{"id":660870,"date":"2010-02-10T19:52:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T00:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/?p=122415"},"modified":"2010-02-10T19:52:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T00:52:23","slug":"ukraine-%e2%80%9cback-to-the-past%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/660870","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: \u201cBack to the Past?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Leopolis<\/em> writes on the Ukrainian election and <a href=\"http:\/\/leopolis.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/president-yanukovych-back-to-past.html\">reactions in the West and in Ukraine<\/a>. Here&#39;s what some of the latter sound like: &#8220;This election was the choice between the whorehouse (<em>bardak<\/em>) and the prison (<em>zona<\/em>). Of cholera and swine flu. Better to stand in place than take five steps backward. Or maybe a better opposition will form in place of constant dysfunction. We are divided &#8212; look at the map &#8212; not due to the leaders&#39; political competence, but due to identity. When Yanukovych expresses gratitude to &#8216;the people&#39; for their support, I do not feel I belong to that group. On the other hand, that&#39;s how easterners felt under the Orange rule&#8230; This is Ukraine&#39;s drama.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leopolis writes on the Ukrainian election and reactions in the West and in Ukraine. Here&#39;s what some of the latter sound like: &#8220;This election was the choice between the whorehouse (bardak) and the prison (zona). Of cholera and swine flu. Better to stand in place than take five steps backward. Or maybe a better opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LVc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}