You live in Ukraine, right?

What would you like to see happen?


  • Do you want other Europeans to boycott Euro2012?



  • Do you want Yanukovich to be banned from entering the EU?



  • Do you think it is a good or a bad thing that these types of stories constitute 95% of the news coverage about Ukraine in Western Europe?



  • Do you think that the previous president, and Yulia Tymoshenko were less corrupt than Yanukovich?


Several other people on this forum also live in Ukraine - it would be interesting to hear their view as well as yours.

In case you are not aware, the EU position towards Ukraine changed after Yanukovich became president. For some reason unknown to me... the EU more or less liked the previous president.

After seeing only this type of biased coverage, I arrived in Ukraine as a tourist, frankly expecting terrible criminality and problems with poverty. I was prepared for "the worst". But what I found was a country full of extremely warm and friendly people, probably less beggars than many Western European countries and not more criminality than elsewhere. I think the picture of Ukraine presented in Western European papers is misleading.

I can see that you do not feel this way, since you have posted several quite negative threads about Ukraine.
I sympathise that you are frustrated by some problems in your country, but perhaps you are being a bit hard?

It is obvious that there are big problems with corruption in Russia and Ukraine, but many people, even here on MR take a very cynical and accepting view of this, and the motivation doesn't seem to be very strong from the political leaders either. Nobody else can or want to fix the problems with corruption in these countries. The people have to push for it and the politicians have to become more angry. But I honestly don't see how biased news coverage helps anyone!
I understand Danish and that story was seriously angled. People listening to this (and a similar story every 1-2 weeks) will get a very negative opinion indeed, of the Ukraine.