EuroMaidan Revolution
Alexander J. Motyl: A Russian threat to Ukraine?
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 7. Details of their meeting were not released to the public.
Let’s start with the alarming question many people are now asking and then consider other forms of possible Russian intervention in the ongoing Ukrainian Revolution. It was on January 31st that Vladimir Putin’s former adviser, the economist Andrei Illarionov, shocked Ukrainians with his claim that the Kremlin has already developed several scenarios ranging from “control over all of Ukraine” to “control” over several provinces. His views might have been dismissed as alarmist were it not for the fact that Ukrainians have been expecting a more forceful Russian response to the ongoing revolution for weeks.
