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I think this is awesome, I worry about it triggering a Russian response if there is something in there which ties back to the Putin administration.

What I really like is way in which Ukraine is going about this, unlike the Mideast (Egypt comes to mind), where it seems the only things the people who took over cared about was exacting retribution on the former government, rather than having "Make a stable and just government" as their first priority, and "Investigate and punish any crimes that may have occurred" as their second priority.



The first thing this new "government" did before doing anything else was repeal a law that allows regional rights to minority languages (Russian included) and demanded that the International Criminal Court charge the democratically elected Yanukovich with crimes against humanity.

They are only now trying to name an interim government. As far as how stable this government will be that is left to be seen, but if the US was willing to invest some resources in supporting the revolution and several of the candidates being named this week, as the assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland seems to suggest in this intimate conversation (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957), perhaps they'll be willing to bail out Ukraine's economy?




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