[Calpernia]

How are you? The Urkaine newsletters I'm on don't have great news right now. Russia is strong arming.

[struwwelpeter]

Friends over there are very worried. Kuchma's hand-picked successor - Viktor Yanukovich - is doing the same nasty election politics that Kuchma pulled. Yushchenko seems to be semi-clean, which for Ukraine is close to sainthood.

A friend who was held six months in "protective custody" for backing the wrong side in Zaporozh'e city politics thinks it's going to be a revolution, but I think the people are too pessimistic and worn-out to bother.