The Yanukovych-Putin deal signed on the heels of the turned-down Association Agreement with the European Union is a noose around Ukraine’s neck. Fifteen billion dollars of the “loan” goes to pay off the existing energy “debt” to Russia.
Oksana Bashuk Hepburn: Ukraine-Russia deal is bad for Canada
The EuroMaidan protests in Ukraine stand for democracy and against the decision by President Viktor Yanukovych to sell Ukraine’s future to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s despotic, expansionistic and backward-looking Russia.