When Viktor Yanukovych was elected president three years ago a lot of Ukrainians hoped that he had changed and become more democratically minded. Ukrainians believed that after coming to power Yanukovych wanted to put this image behind him and respect the constitution and laws.
They were completely wrong.
Yanukovych has shown himself to be more Soviet than European with no
respect for private property, human rights, the rule of law and
democratic values in general. This view of the world is made doubly
worse by the influence of his past twice imprisonment in Soviet Union,
which explains the appearance of aggressiveness toward political
opponents, journalists and civil society.
