{"id":163,"date":"2014-02-23T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=163"},"modified":"2022-03-11T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T23:00:11","slug":"10-things-ukrainians-can-focus-on-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2014\/02\/23\/10-things-ukrainians-can-focus-on-now\/","title":{"rendered":"10 things Ukrainians can focus on now…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s my little provocation, as I wonder whether and how this blog should continue…<\/em><\/p>\n

10 things Ukrainians can focus on, now that Yankovych is out<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Old-style politicians maneuvering themselves to replace him without changing anything of substance<\/li>\n
  2. Backroom wheeling and dealing among oligarchs and politicians<\/li>\n
  3. Svoboda, Right Sector, et al., clamoring for power to impose their radical rightist agendas<\/li>\n
  4. The pressure for neoliberal austerity programs that will accompany Western financial aid<\/li>\n
  5. Separatist movements and gangs of “titushky” in Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk<\/li>\n
  6. Russia<\/li>\n
  7. The crumbling economy<\/li>\n
  8. The devastated economy<\/li>\n
  9. Did I mention the economy?<\/li>\n
  10. Building a genuine democracy and learning to love it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (But instead they will sing, pray, hold memorials, build monuments, argue, and live as beautifully as always.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here’s my little provocation, as I wonder whether and how this blog should continue… 10 things Ukrainians can focus on, now that Yankovych is out Old-style politicians maneuvering themselves to replace him without changing anything of substance Backroom wheeling and dealing among oligarchs and politicians Svoboda, Right Sector, et al., clamoring for power to impose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[457036],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ukrainian-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdPO21-2D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}