Epstein Secrets

ling of Yanukovych's 2010 presi- dential campaign rival, Yuliya Tymoshenko. That effort failed, as members of Congress and the American me- dia made Tymoshenko's fate a crucial criterion in their assessment of Yanukovych's record!? Manafort had more success in his earlier work to prepare Yanukovych for hi

Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians 7. Military invasions: Russian forces poured into Georgia through its two breakaway territories, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, during a brief con- flict in 2008. In 2014, Russian troops occupied Crimea, oversaw a stage-managed referendum on annexation the

ppointment. The Orange Revolution, in 2004, failed to establish stable democratic institutions and economic justice. This is one reason that Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Prime Minister, newly released from prison, is not likely the future of Ukraine. How can Ukraine possibly move quickly to national elec

bid to retake South Ossetia and then muscled its tiny neighbor, eventually waging a war that ended with Russia taking control of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In a recent Letter from Sochi, I tried to describe Putin's motivations: his resentment of Western triumphalism and American power, after 1991; his

iling of Yanukovych’s 2010 presi- dential campaign rival, Yuliya Tymoshenko. That effort failed, as members of Congress and the American me- dia made Tymoshenko’ fate a crucial criterion in their assessment of Yanukovych’s record.’? Manafort had more success in his earlier work to prepare Yanukovych for his c

s, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians 7. Military invasions: Russian forces poured into Georgia through its two breakaway territories, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, during a brief con- flict in 2008. In 2014, Russian troops occupied Crimea, oversaw a stage-managed referendum on annexation there