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Mayorga, who was already planning a trip to China, got some not especially subtle encouragement from Steta to add berries to his agenda there.
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People who have been bundled up and hunkered down all winter are emerging from their caves to witness the sun shining, the lake ice melting and warmer days. Hooray!
The dramatic shift from the deep freeze of winter into the drama and glory of spring is an incredible thing to behold. If it weren't for spring, many of us Chicagoans would be somewhere else, sitting under a palm tree, sipping a cool drink and slapping on the sunscreen.
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3. Spring clean. It is this time of year that many of us feel the need to clean. Get rid of the yuckiness built up over the winter—not just the home but the body too. A gentle cleanse/detox program is highly recommended.
4. Refresh your closet. Tangerine orange is the color of this spring. Update your closet with a few pieces of this fresh vibrant color.
5. Go outside. Get in touch with the natural world around you. Be a witness to the incredible changes this season brings.
6. Get moving. Get off the couch and get the sap going in your veins. Take a walk, play outside, ride your bike. Whatever you do, a little movement will wake you up and make you feel good.
7. Stretch. Avoid injury while you're performing the above by stretching a little. Massage is also a good way to get the circulation going in your muscles, ligaments and tendons.
8. Meditate. This age-old technique helps to calm the mind, develop inner peace and rejuvenate the spirit within us.
9. Commit to being a little more flexible. Flexible people are better able to handle stress and take life's bumps and bruises in stride. If you struggle to deal what life dishes out, give a little, like branches in the breeze.
10. Start something new. Spring is a time of growth and expansiveness. By starting a new project, hobby, skill, job or relationship, you're creating movement, change and growth that are the essence of this time of year.

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Freezing temperatures at the end of April could have a devastating effect on Ontario apple crops, and U.S. grower-shippers also were affected.
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- Andrew Shields said...
The man has taste! (Did you see the item in the summer about the poems he published as an undergraduate?)
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- Maya Ganesan said...
So we're finally going to have a president who respects poetry!
Love your blog. And your poetry, too. :) - 2:22 PM, November 09, 2008
- ~ said...
Andrew--yes. I'm just thrilled to have poet/poetry fan in the White House.
Maya-- Thank you for leaving a note. I believe your sister visited recently, say hello to her. I hope all is going well with your new book-- I've been so impressed with your work since Katherine introduced me to it. All the best to you. - 9:16 PM, November 09, 2008
- January said...
Finally, a president who appreciates literature. No matter how you slice it, it's all good.
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- Andrew Shields said...
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almost more importantly: a first lady in a baseball cap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! W00T!
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I ordered a bug shield for my 2008 escape from ford and the instruction are not that clear. There is a rubber gasket on the under side of the hood. Does anyone know how to install the shield with the rubber gasket in the way.
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ladyblue Posts: 326I'm planning to have the dealer install a bug shield and window guards when my Escape comes in. I've had them installed on other vehicles in the past at after-market shops and ended up with problems. I'm not saying the dealer can do a better job, but at least they can't complain when I turn the vehicle in at the end of my lease.
gheimur Posts: 88The instructions are pictorials.A little vague but I've done serious stuff in the past. 6 holes need to be drilled. in the past I've used Weather Tech where there is no drilling however they do not make one for the 08 Escape. I need to be careful in not drilling too far and going into the hood. If anyone gets one, DO NOT REMOVE THE YELLOW DOTS on the bug shield until the install is done. I made the mistake of removing them before I read the instructions. The yellow dots show where the rubber bumpers go on the hood(stick on). Now I will need to measure where they go so they are even and use the vague pictorial as an example. The instructions also show to use some type of substance where the holes are drilled to prevent rust. I am going to use some duplicolor primer followed by clearcoat. I doubt the dealer will do this. Also they show in the instructions to use Loctite on the end screws. I again doubt the dealer will do this. They also show a tool to deburr the drilled holes before the the rust preventative stuff is used. Any suggestions on what to put on the drilled holed besides the primer and the clearcoat? I plan to do this on the weekend, when I won't be distracted and my wife can help me hold the shield
ladyblue Posts: 326My dealer told me that the bug shield for the 2008 is not yet available. How can this be, if others on this board have already gotten one? Where did you get it?
I went to a few aftermarket sites and they all came up empty for a 2008 Escape. My dealer said it should be available in a couple of weeks.
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mschmal Posts: 1,757This is not a "direct from Ford" ordering site. Only Ford DEALERS can sell Ford accessories, Ford parts and Ford vehicles to retail customers.
Fordaccesories.com is just a front end for Troy Ford of Troy Ohio.
I bet if you took a printout from that website to your local ford dealer, they would match the price.
If you want the factory Ford site, follow this link
This site allows you to send an order to your local participating dealer.
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chucklesva Posts: 9i just installed one on my gray escape. it is a low profile unit that looks ok, but doesn't offer much protection. beaware that you must drill six hole in the underside of the hood to mount the unit. you also have to install four rubber bumpers between the hood a shield on the outside. these are furnished. you have to actually force the bumpers between the hood and shield and in my case the shield looks a little deform at this location. it is not a difficult job just scarey. the only place i could find one was at the dealer
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salmonella1 Posts: 2Hi Chucklesva, I just got a bug shield from the dealer for my 2008 Escape. I was in the process of installing it, and of course was not especially enthused about the drilling of 6 holes in my hood. The instructions are not as clear as I would like them, but I think I can manage. I was wondering if the Bug Shield is installed under the 1/2" rubber piece which is situated right underneath the inner tip of the hood, or on top of it. Any help would be appreciated. There is no mention in the instructions.
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salmonella1 Posts: 2Thanks for the info,
I did manage to install it, I removed the rubber piece completely after all, it fits better withoout it, looks good.
One little bit of advice though: Be very, very, very careful when you attach the metal end brackets to the bug shield, it notes (10 lbs per squre in torque in the instructions), if you overtighten, it cracks the plastic. It takes very little pressure. So just snug, and don't forget the thread locking compound. (Locktite, ect.)
Good luck all !!
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chucklesva Posts: 9you also need to be aware that the 4 rubber bumpers that they provide, seem to fall off. i have lost one already. when i ask the dealer to replace it, he advised that they were no available and yes it was a problem, severval other customers has lost them. i am going to call ford customer service about this.
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gheimur Posts: 88I do have to say if the instructions were clearer and I didn't pull off the yellow dots. The install would of been close to perfect. Because I pulled of the yellow dots and maybe put the 2 gaskets that go around the screw opening in the wrong place( I am not sure because the instructions weren't clear. They should probably go on holes 2 and 5 instaed of 3 and 4. After installing the bumpers where I thought they should when I later opened the hood , I noticed cracks under the outer 2 holes and at the end underneath. WIth the hood closed the install looks perfect. I am also not too crazy where the metal brackets touch the painted surface underneath. I feel that vibration may eventually take some paint off.
I contacted the dealer after I noticed the cracks and they told me to contact Lunds as they are the manufacturer of the Ford accessory. I wrote them a letter and explained to them of the cracks. They agreed to send me a new one.
The new one is not the genuine Ford accessory but one made by Lunds for the 2008 Ford Escape under the AVS( Auto Vent Shade) brand. I opened the box and from the instructions the mounting seems simpler and I feel is better. It is held by tape underneath and 6 screws that I may need to drill new holes, I will wait to see if the old one eventually develops more cracks and than install the new one .That's my story.......... -
chucklesva Posts: 9I was going to tell you about the shield cracking after the install. the same thing happen to mine and i was very careful not to over tighten the screws. i think the problems is caused by the pressure that the rubber bumper cause when holding it away from the hood. i also had one bumper fall off. doesn't appear to be the best design. thanks for the info on lund, i will be calling them for a replace.
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fuddy1 Posts: 1I had my bug shield installed at the dealer a couple of months ago. Today the end of the left side of the shield slipped out. I opened the hood and notice that there is a hole in the shield that seems like it should be for a screw or somehting. I am wondering it the installer took a short cut and did not attach a fastener. Do any of you who did your own install know if the lips at the far ends of the shield that wrap under the hood ( where there is a hole on the underside) are supposed to be fastened in some way. I am worried that it is going to slip out again while I am driving and rub against my hood.
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chucklesva Posts: 9You should have a metal bracket that attaches from the hood to the shield on each end of the shield ie above the headlight area. there has been a problem with the shield and these bracket in that they seem to crack at this attachment point. it is not a very good design. i have a cracks at both metal brackets. also these holes had to be drilled by the installer.
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I love Mumford & Sons - I am only thirteen, but I am completely inspired by you guys. You are the people who I aspire to be, and yet you are still both humble and talented. Your music (and I speak not just for myself) brings me hope, and it makes me feel like there is nothing to worry about. I love you guys so much.
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I am a newer member to the site and every time I come here I find more gems! I just love that you posted a personal journal in your own handwriting. It made it so more intimate & I felt closer to getting to know you, Marcus. I hope you are able to continue to do this in the future. Your fame is growing yet your feet remain firmly grounded & you guys are not letting it get to your heads.
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I think it's wonderful that you kept a journal, Marcus. And thank you for uploading your own handwriting! It's so refreshing to see someone's own penmanship and not just a generic typed document. Any chance you could do this on your next tour?? I'd love to keep up with you guys on the road! Thanks for the beautiful music, by the way :) ~Peace and love, Erin
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Marcus, Thanks for sharing your diary with everyone. Your song writing is amazing; as is your voice. Love the band! and the music you all are making. -Terra-
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I am so interested in the PERSON that you are and what fills your heart and what soothes your soul. To be able to read your PERSONAL diary entry just made my ENTIRE week. It is really incredible to be able to read such a private thing (but I guess it's not so private anymore) but to be able to read this; it's so much more special than reading an interview in a magazine or online. Basically, I loved this and I wish there was more to read. (I already read the PART ONE edition also.) Keep writing and making some of THE most beautiful music my ears have ever had the pleasure of hearing. I love all of you guys for what you do!
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Please come to Vancouver Island, very West Coast of Canada!!! We know how to enjoy music here and especially such amazing music artists as yourselves!! I hope you'll venture over here one day very soon. xox
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Loved the photos! Hope you can come to Edmonton AB sometime… I'd love to see you live.
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my family is originally from lewis (barvas) never been, but suspect it's just as beautiful as you've described :)
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Mr. Lanier was a Baptist and played the violin, trumpet, guitar and steel guitar.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Johnnie Ruth Stafford Lanier; sister, Dora Holder of Wilmington, N.C., and brothers, Clarence Lanier of Van, Texas, and Harvey Lanier of Martins Mill, Texas.
Survivors include daughter Lorry Blackwell of Forrest; son, Earl Lanier Jr. of Richardson, Texas; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
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The fate of Utah's embattled state fairgrounds became more clear Monday with the agreement between the Utah State Fairpark and Real Salt Lake to build an $18 million minor league soccer stadium on the grounds.
RSL adds North Carolina center back via MLS SuperDraft
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posted Jan 12th - 3:52pm
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Gil, Rimando called in to USMNT's 28-player January camp
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posted Jan 9th - 12:58pm
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MLS releases 2015 regular-season schedule
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posted Jan 7th - 1:41pm
Major League Soccer released the entirety of the 2015 season schedule on Wednesday, and it includes a record eight national television broadcasts for Real Salt Lake.
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posted Jan 6th - 9:32pm
Chivas de Guadalajara and Major League Soccer agreed to a transfer fee that will send the Mexican international to the Liga MX side from Real Salt Lake, both clubs confirmed Tuesday night, and former RSL midfielder Cole Grossman will join Stabaek.
RSL names Tyrone Marshall as new assistant coach
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posted Jan 6th - 8:08pm
MLS veteran Tyrone Marshall has been named an assistant coach on second-year head coach Jeff Cassar's staff, Real Salt Lake announced Tuesday.
Notes: MLS unveils newest GA class; new RSL left back appears imminent
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posted Jan 5th - 5:08pm
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Agent: RSL's Salcedo will sign with Liga MX's Chivas de Guadalajara
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posted Dec 25th - 5:22pm
RSL central defender Carlos Salcedo will sign a contract projected to be 3-4 years with Liga MX giant Chivas de Guadalajara, his agent Oskar Olsen told Fox Deportes Thursday.
RSL reportedly to sign Brazilian midfielder from NASL
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posted Dec 24th - 3:41pm
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RSL-Arizona Academy coach to lead Monarchs
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posted Dec 23rd - 5:19pm
RSL-Arizona Academy coach Freddy Juarez has been named the head coach of the Monarchs, RSL technical director Craig Waibel announced Tuesday.
Velasquez latest RSL player to go to NYC; team opens 2015 on road
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posted Dec 19th - 2:25pm
Sebastian Velasquez, the 23-year-old midfielder from Medellin, Colombia, was traded from RSL to New York City on Thursday in exchange for allocation money.
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posted Dec 19th - 9:55am
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GM Lagerwey to exit RSL once contract expires; Waibel named technical director
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posted Dec 16th - 2:43pm
One year after Jason Kreis accepted the head coaching job at New York City FC, general manager Garth Lagerwey will depart RSL for a similar role with the Seattle Sounders, according to multiple media reports.
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For The First Time Ever The Lucas Oil Late Models & UNOH All Star Sprint Cars Racing On The Same Night
History will be made on Friday, August 30th as the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions share center stage at "Ohio's Finest Racing" speed plant.
On Saturday, August 31st the UNOH All Star Sprints return for the traditional "Attica Ambush" season finale at ARP. Also in action will be the UMP DIRTcar Late Models, 305 Sprint Cars and Dirt Trucks.
Also thanks to Ron McComas of MRE Racing for giving an extra $200 so we can pay $1,000 to win for the 305 Sprint Cars.
MARKING YOUR SEATS: You can mark your seats prior to the event after the races on Friday, August 24th by taping plastic or blankets down to the bleachers and marking them with "Lucas Oil & All-Stars 8/30-8/31" with a Sharpie. You cannot just put tape directly on the bleacher (it will be removed prior to the event).
STADIUM CHAIR POLICY: No stadium chairs with backs will be allowed in for special events for the courtesy of those sitting around you.
COOLER POLICY: No coolers permitted over 14-Inches.
ALCOHOL POLICY: Ohio Revised Code 4301.62 prohibits the carry in or carry out of alcoholic beverages. All coolers will be inspected for compliance to this law. For those fans over the age 21, alcohol can be purchased inside the track gates.
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Across the country, some of the nation's most prosperous people and companies — including GE, Google and Goldman Sachs — have avoided paying the taxes they owe, costing taxpayers $150 billion just last year.
No company should be able to game the tax system to avoid paying what it legitimately owes. And, yet, with atleast 83 of the nation's top 100 publicly traded companies establishing shell companies in offshore havens to avoid taxes, this is becoming more the rule than the exception. GE, Google, Goldman Sachs and dozens of others have created hundreds of phantom entities with nothing more than a clever tax attorney and P.O. box.
Most recent academic studies estimate that about $150 billion in tax revenue is lost every year to offshore tax havens. The result? Cuts to public services, additional taxes today or additional debt to be paid by the next generation.
It's not illegal, but it's not right.
Meanwhile . . . the average taxpayer paid $1,026 more to cover the billions that GE and others skipped out on last year, companies that don't use these schemes keep struggling to compete with those that do, and state legislatures and Congress are considering deep cuts for essential public programs — from education, to health care, to clean air and drinking water.
We're being asked to tighten our belts and make sacrifices while giving the tax haven crew a free ride. U.S. PIRG is pushing for commonsense changes that simply say that if corporations are based here and generate profits here, then they should, like all of us who earn income here, pay the taxes they owe.
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HOPKINS COUNTY, KY. (12/9/13) Auditions for the poignant comedy "I'm Not Rappaport" by Herb Gardner will be held on December 15 & 16, 2013 at the Glema Mahr Center for the Arts on the campus of Madisonville Community College in Madisonville, Kentucky.
"I'm Not Rappaport" will require a cast of 5 men, aged 16 and up, and 2 women, aged early 20's and 40 to 50's. Auditions will be held on stage at the Glema Center on Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 2 p.m. and on Monday, December 16, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. Those auditioning will read from the script and participate in improvisational exercises. Please dress comfortably.
I'm Not Rappaport! takes place under a bridge in Central Park, where two octogenarians - one white, one black - meet regularly, determined to fight off all attempts to put them out to pasture. Nat is a cantankerous radical whose daughter is urging him into the old folk's home. Midge, an apartment superintendent spends his days in the park hiding in the past and from his disgruntled tenants.
Both Nat and Midge are in their 80's but can be portrayed by men of a younger age. (The most recent Broadway Revival featured Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen.) Other roles include Nat's daughter, a young art student, a middle-aged businessman, a teenaged hoodlum, and "the cowboy".
This production will be directed by Sean Mooningham. The performances are February 20-22, 2014 at the Glema Center with regularly scheduled rehearsals beginning January 6. Scripts may be checked out through the Glema Center office prior to auditions. Also, there will be openings for technical volunteers. Those interested in either acting or in backstage/technical work are encouraged to attend auditions.
The Glema Mahr Center for the Arts is located on the campus of Madisonville Community College, 2000 College Drive, Madisonville, KY, 42431. For more information, please call 270-824-8650.
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Fighting for the Soul of Ukraine
"Revolution!" This is what they are shouting in Kiev. Ever since November 21 tens of thousands have been on the streets of the capital of Ukraine, defying the police and bans on demonstrations. On December 8 hundreds of thousands packed the city center, and a granite statue of Lenin was toppled in a scene recalling both Europe's anti-Communist revolutions of 1989 and the symbolic fall of Saddam's statue in Baghdad in 2003. Especially at the beginning of the demonstrations the riot police have reacted brutally, which brought out many more protesters. At times hard-liners among the demonstrators have resorted to violence but some of the violent actions seem to have been led by government-paid provocateurs.
As the first snows of winter fell no one knew which way the upheaval in one of Europe's largest countries would turn. Protesters in Kiev's Independence Square set up barricades and tents, occupied city hall, and blockaded government buildings. On December 9 security forces raided the offices of a major opposition party and took away computer servers. The websites of opposition media groups were attacked. On December 11 police tried to evict protesters from city hall before retreating. The same day, the protesters were rebuilding barricades the police had knocked down the night before. President Viktor Yanukovych was reported to have met with three former presidents and to have promised to revive talks with the EU.
Was this a rerun of the Orange Revolution of 2004–2005, which captured the imagination of the world and infuriated Vladimir Putin, Russia's leader? Or would President Yanukovych reassert control and hence reassure Putin that he had won the latest battle of Kiev?
Whichever way things develop, one thing is clear. What we saw in the Orange Revolution, and what we are seeing now, is a fight for the very soul of Ukraine, a country of some 45.5 million people that stretches between the eastern marches of the European Union to the western borderlands of Russia. The protests began when the Ukrainian government announced it would not sign two rather dry-sounding agreements with the European Union at a summit meeting on November 28 and 29 in Vilnius, Lithuania. At issue were not really the minutiae of a trade deal and matters of political and economic reform but something far more profound. The question is whether Ukraine will end years of balancing between the EU and Russia and definitively throw in its lot with the countries to its west, or whether it will return to a Moscow-led order, in which it resumes its traditional role of Russia's little brother.
In October 2012, during Ukraine's last parliamentary election campaign, I had lunch with Leonid Kozhara, then spokesman of the country's ruling Party of Regions and now Ukraine's foreign minister. At one point he tugged the sleeve of his jacket. For Russia, he said dismissively, the other former Soviet republics were just like the buttons on the sleeve, but "we," he said, meaning Ukraine, "are the sleeve." At the time it seemed as though Kozhara's party, with its leader Yanukovych, was the pro-Russian party of Ukraine. Its heartland is the Russian-speaking east of the country and there, in the industrial regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, it received respectively 65 percent and 57 percent of the vote. Move from east to west, however, and the electoral map tells you much of what you need to know. The further west you travel, and especially as you leave regions that were not historically part of Russia or its empire, like Crimea, the party's support falls until, in the Lviv region, on the Polish border, it got only 4.7 percent in the 2012 vote.
This October I was back in Kiev, as a guest of the German Marshall Fund, a think tank and grant-making body, to meet officials and others and to talk about the European future of Ukraine. At the time of my visit a year before, pro-Europeans were depressed. They were still smarting from the failure of the Orange Revolution, in which they believed mistakenly that Ukraine had been firmly set on a pro-European path. The revolution had begun in 2004 when a rigged election would have made Yanukovych president. There were two heroes of the revolution. One was Viktor Yushchenko and the other the rich and glamorous Yulia Tymoshenko, who had made a fortune in the gas business.
Initially, the revolution was a success. The attempt during the election to poison Yushchenko marred his features but he survived and became president. Expectations were high, and thus disappointment was to some extent inevitable, but no one expected the Orange leaders to let their people down quite as much as they did: they failed completely to build a well-functioning modern state. The revolutionaries proved incompetent, autocratic, and corrupt and fought among themselves so destructively that by 2010 Yanukovych was voted back into power.
Then, in 2011, Tymoshenko was jailed for abuse of power over a deal she had struck with Russia's Gazprom, by which Ukraine pays more for its Russian gas than Western countries that are supplied with the same gas via Ukraine. Her prosecution was viewed by most informed people as utterly flawed and above all political. Since the heyday of her popularity during the Orange Revolution, support for Tymoshenko has fallen sharply but she still remains a significant political player.
When Yanukovych's party won the 2012 general election, pro-Europeans thought that the fate of their country was sealed. Belarus and Kazakhstan are part of a customs union with Russia, and Putin wanted Ukraine and other former Soviet states to join it. This arrangement is the precursor to a Russian-dominated Eurasian Economic Union—to be launched in 2015—which pro-Europeans regard as a means by which Russia will reassert control over many of the countries on its periphery. So, Ukraine looked as if it were moving toward Russia. But at that lunch with Kozhara, the man who would become foreign minister, he told a story that helps explain what happened next. He said that he had met colleagues from Kazakhstan who had warned him against joining the Russian-sponsored customs union. They said that in a meeting the Russians had explained what they wanted to do. When the Kazakhs began to put forward their own ideas, the Russians told them they were not interested because they had just made clear to them what would be done, whether they liked it or not.
What Kozhara's story meant was that, at the heart of the party regarded as pro-Russian, there was little appetite for being absorbed into a new arrangement with Russia in which Ukrainian leaders would simply be reduced to taking orders. So, to the surprise of many, the Yanukovych government began doing exactly the opposite of what had been expected of it. It began working on deals with the EU, and hence public support for those deals began to rise. (A survey in October found that 45 percent of Ukrainians believed that Ukraine should sign the agreements with the EU, while only 14 percent believed it should join the customs union.) Now, after the government caved in to Russian pressure, and the resulting protests, there has been much talk of dissent within the president's party. The chief of the presidential administration has resigned, and at least two members of parliament have quit the party as well.
People in Ukraine speak both Ukrainian and Russian. The west is more or less entirely Ukrainian-speaking, while Russian is spoken in the east and center. In Kiev, as I went with colleagues to visit ministries, officials spoke one language or the other and no one seemed to mind which was being spoken. Unlike some other countries though, language is not a guide to how people identify themselves. According to the 2001 census, 17.3 percent say they are Russians, though many more use Russian as a first language while identifying themselves as Ukrainian. The east of the country and the Black Sea coast were long part of the Russian Empire, while much of the west was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and then parts of interwar Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia.
Since the different parts of the country have such deep roots in different political traditions and histories, which are reflected in their different voting patterns, it is easy to understand why Ukrainian politicians might want to balance between the EU and Russia and extract concessions from one side by playing it against the other. But what has provoked the current crisis is that both Russia and the EU have become fed up with Ukraine's hedging.
Putin is set on recreating a circle of countries around Russia that bend to its will. With regard to Ukraine, while he pays lip service to its sovereignty, there is little doubt that he subscribes to the view put so succinctly by a Russian friend of mine, who is of the same generation as Putin, that the Ukrainians will "come crawling back to us sooner or later." But to the west, the EU—especially its former Soviet bloc countries like Poland and Slovakia but Germany as well, led by Angela Merkel, a former East German—also want Ukraine as closely integrated as possible into a belt of friendly countries.
For Russia, as Štefan Füle, the EU's enlargement commissioner, told me, Ukraine has always been part of a geostrategic game, while the EU has always been uncertain about the extent it to which it should adopt a similarly active policy, as opposed to relying solely "on our values and principles." He added that the EU had never seen the issue as one of a zero-sum game with Russia. Still, as one Western ambassador put it to me unequivocally in October: "A geopolitical window [to Europe] has opened." In Vilnius Yanukovych tried to close it and now the protesters on the streets of Kiev are desperately trying to keep it open.
EU relations with the six European and Caucasian ex-Soviet states around Russia have been conducted under the aegis of what is called the Eastern Partnership. At the November meeting in Vilnius, important agreements were supposed to be signed with four of them, including Ukraine. Nothing significant was to be done with Belarus and Azerbaijan. The former is understood to be Europe's last dictatorship and closely bound to Russia already, while the Aliev family, which runs Azerbaijan, has no interest in Europe's democratic values or trade. Its members have become rich on oil and gas and that is enough for them.
Georgia, by contrast, initialed a trade deal with the EU and an association agreement, as did Moldova, which borders the EU. Both of them have separatist regions on their territory controlled by Russia. Armenia was due to sign agreements too but it is utterly dependent on Russia for its security and has a large migrant population working in Russia, who would be vulnerable should Putin be inclined to expel workers, so President Serzh Sargsyan changed course after a visit to Putin in September and dramatically announced that Armenia would join the customs union. This left Ukraine, by far the biggest, most populous, and most important of the six countries, and it was expected to sign a major free trade deal and an association agreement with the EU specifying political relations and reforms in everything from food safety standards to the judiciary.
In October European flags were everywhere in Kiev and everyone in government was speaking in favor of the deals. Legislation had just been passed in order to clear the way for the signing. One major sticking point remained, however. EU leaders as well as Ukrainians had condemned "selective justice," which was code for pardoning or getting EU backing for releasing Tymoshenko, who has had serious back problems. The EU and its negotiators, a former Polish president and an Irish former president of the European Parliament, shuttled back and forth to Kiev working on an agreement. The central point of it was that Tymoshenko would go to Germany for medical treatment before the Vilnius meeting, thus clearing the way for a signing.
On balance it looked like things were progressing, though there was an unresolved problem. Yanukovych was happy for Tymoshenko to go but wanted to make sure she could not come back, at least not before the 2015 presidential elections. This made clear his fear that she still has some support.
Pro-Europeans also thought that the way Putin makes public his disdain for Yanukovych, who in his youth spent time in prison for robbery and assault, was helping to estrange their president from Russia. When they have met, Putin has made Yanukovych wait for hours, presumably to humiliate him; he spends as little time with him as possible. Putin despises Yanukovych, say Ukrainians, who also told me that they think their president is frightened of him.
At some point Putin decided that the Vilnius summit stood in the way of his plans and that he had to undermine it. If Ukraine signed the EU trade deal this would, by default, rule out its joining Putin's customs union and hence the Eurasian Economic Union. The deals would mean that Ukrainian legislation, rules, and standards would be harmonized with those of the EU. While EU imports would be cheaper in Ukraine, higher-quality Ukrainian exports would also be more competitive in the EU.
No one doubted that, in the short run, this would spell pain for a number of Ukrainian industries, but in the long run, went the argument, while the medicine was bitter, it was worth taking. You had only to look at the divergent paths of Poland and Ukraine. In 1990, according to the World Bank, their GDPs per capita were similar, as were their mortality rates. Now with Poland in the EU, its GDP is more than three times greater than that of Ukraine and Poles can expect to live more than five years longer than Ukrainians. Today Poland's population is more or less the same as in 1990 but aging Ukraine has lost six million people, more than 11 percent of its 1990 population.
Ukraine and the other countries in the Eastern Partnership have not, unlike the western Balkan countries such as Serbia, been specifically promised membership in the EU. On the other hand the union's Lisbon Treaty says that any European country can apply to join. Still, in October, everyone in government and the opposition was saying that signing the two agreements in Vilnius was a historic opportunity for Ukraine. What was to be signed, said Andrii Olefirov, the deputy foreign minister, was just the first stage: "We are looking at the long-term perspectives and benefits which we will get," and as an example he cited progress toward visa-free travel to Europe's Schengen Area of twenty-six countries. Yurii Miroshnychenko, the president's representative to parliament, said: "We are fully aware of the price we will have to pay for this decision, yet we are ready to make this decision as a strategic one."