Atlantic Council: Yanukovych in wonderland

Alexander J. Motyl writes: The policy and business elites who attended the Atlantic Council’s September 24th luncheon in New York with Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych may be wondering just what he meant by what he said—and, more important, by what he did not say. The good news is that his “address” was probably written by his minions—possibly in Ukrainian, possibly in Russian—and then translated into barely adequate English (with a noticeable absence of definite and indefinite articles). The speech may therefore be assumed to reflect Yanukovych’s views, and not those of his American handler, the political consultant Paul Manafort. Read the story here.