MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I know, I know... I am a sour puss but I can't help myself

and...

UKRAINE: WHY OH WHY, TAKE 2!

Sweet picture of youth!

In my previous blog-post, I described briefly the most likely reasons Yanukovych walked away from the EU deal, with the main one being that there was nothing in it for himself - quite the contrary.

But a goodly chunk of the country really wanted that association with Europe. The polls I saw and which put support for the EU deal anywhere between 45 and 55% (depending on how the question was phrased and who was doing the survey) did not convey the depth of feelings of those pro-Europeans.