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0) Why isn't Ukraine in the trade union with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan?
The problem is that Ukraine is a member of WTO now. That russophobe Yushchenko was so willing to make Ukrain more distant from Russia that he agreed to all demands of WTO without arguing and Ukraine become a member on a very disadvantageous terms. And some WTO rules contradict with Customs Union rules.

1) Are Ukrainian people even more cynical about Politics than Russians?
I think almost the same. And according to my expirience it-ogo pulled the statement about "Russians often have sentiments about "Great Eurasian Nation" right out from his a$s (sorry, it-ogo).

2) What are the three main parties in Ukrainian politics and what do they stand for?
a) Regions party lead by current president Viktor Yanukovich. Mainly party of Russian-speaking industrial East and South. Partially supported in central regions and have almost zero support at nazi west (especially Lvov and Ivano-Frankovsk regions)

b) Timoshenko's party. They are mainly pro-nationalistic populists, like Jirinovsky's LDPR in Russia.

c)Communists, Litvins's party (socialists) and former president Yushchenko's party (ultra-nationalists).

3) What triggered the Orange Revolution?
Geoge Soros and CIA mainly (Yushchenko's wife is US citizen and (officialy [ha-ha] former) CIA officer), who driven young brainless nationalists out to the streets provocating them saying that Yanukovich cheated at the elections.

4) What precisely happened in the Orange Revolution?
After those protest there was third! tour of the elections and the results were as CIA wanted this time.

5) What good/bad things came out of the Orange Revolution and is it still relevant today?
The results were that Russophibic pro-nazis came to power. Try to guess the rest.

6) Where lies the future of Ukraine, with Russia/CIS, with the EU, with both or neither?
CIS is a fiction. It doesn't work actually. And I think more likely the answer is with both.

7) What are most important problems that the Ukrainian government must solve, according to regular Ukrainians?
I agree with it-ogo here.

8 ) Is there a bit split in the opinions of people in rural vs urban areas.. and what about Russian speaking vs Ukrainian speaking areas?
Rural areas are mostly Ukrainian or half-Ukrainian dialect (surjik) speaking, even at the East. The east cities are almost Russian-speaking only. And the capital (Kiev) about 40% Russian speaking and 60% Ukrainian (according to my expirience). At Soviet times Kiev was almost completely Russian speaking city though.

9) Is language preference a serious problem in Ukraine or rather insignificant?
Some people think that's very serious, others think the opposite.