Andrew Wilson: Five things the West can learn from the Ukraine crisis
A so-called Maidan self defence unit member stands at the Independence square in central Kyiv on March 2, 2014.
After a popular uprising in February, protestors in Ukraine were full of optimism that the nation could improve on its last attempt to change its dysfunctional post-Soviet system, the so-called Orange Revolution in 2004. Now Ukraine faces make-or-break elections on Oct. 26, with the very survival of the state at stake.
