Greg Satell: A look back at how the Ukraine crisis erupted and what to expect in 2015
Ukrainian schoolboys, young cadets of Kyiv Military Lyceum, hold balloons bearing the colors of the Ukraine's national flag after a military oath ceremony in Kyiv-Pecherskaya Lavra Cathedral on Nov. 14, 2014.
A year ago, Ukraine was not a place that warranted much attention. It was merely a poor country in a part of the world that featured neither oil nor terrorism. It was, in that sense, a place like many others that students might learn for a geography test or a school report and then promptly forget.