Easing back in
It's my first day back from a little vacation trip home, and I'm not up to any heavy lifting just yet, so I'll leave you with two links to think on as we approach the new year.
First, something to be thankful for: democracy triumphant, a positive step for a nation long put upon by autocrats, and a challenge to its regressing eastern neighbor, Ukraine peacefully solved its election crisis and left behind Soviet era shackles on future prosperity (hopefully for good).
Second, things about which we ought to be concerned. I'll let Friedman speak for himself.
posted by The Editor @ 10:31 AM
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I must say, the Orange Revolution has left me with a not-insignificant yen/escapist fantasy to pack my bags and say "Heigh-ho!" to Eastern/Baltic Europe. Talk about a small, well-organized group of people supported by civil society changing the world. Snap! How long would it really take to learn Hungarian or Russian or Romanian, if I really really tried? If I tried hard, and say, came in on Saturdays? Mmm, mmm, stone-washed jeans and minging-instant-coffee-that-smells-like-meat, here I come! I think TimeOut London needs a columnist posting from Kyiv, don´t you? I hear they´ve a pretty fair football team as well ...
Dynamo Kiev is awesome by Eastern European standards. Think of it, summers in Odessa, winters skiing the Carpathians, spelling one's name in Cyrillic. No doubt Kiev is the next Prague. Buy now, before the upper-class collegiate set descend to find themselves.
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