One of the major shortcomings of the post-revolutionary government in Ukraine is the inability to communicate properly with the outside world, Anne Applebaum, a prominent Pulitzer Prize winning author and a columnist for The Washington Post agrees. She is convinced that Ukrainian leaders should understand that this is part of their job as politicians to constantly explain who you are and what are you doing: "I'm not sure that Ukrainian politicians, all of them, have yet to understand this."
Hromadske International: Anne Applebaum says Ukraine leaders should start treating communication seriously (VIDEO)
Picture taken on May 7, 2014 shows the then Ukrainian presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko and head of the German-Ukrainian parliament group Karl-Georg Wellmann addressing a press conference in Berlin.