But there are other differences between Mr Yanukovich’s backers and the western and central Ukrainians who mostly support his opponents. The east suffered in the Stalinist famine of the 1930s and inherited a political culture that combines narrow paternalistic expectations with profound cynicism. Easterners despised Mr Yushchenko in 2004 because, to them, his promises of … Continue reading Obama Would Not Win In Dnepropetrovsk