{"id":192406,"date":"2009-04-03T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/03\/massive-rally-in-ukraine-triggers-yuschenko-backdown-on-elections\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T22:39:00","slug":"massive-rally-in-ukraine-triggers-yuschenko-backdown-on-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/03\/massive-rally-in-ukraine-triggers-yuschenko-backdown-on-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Rally in Ukraine Triggers Yuschenko Backdown on Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how much of this is gamesmanship and how much is unrest over an economy falling at a double digit rate, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/04\/world\/europe\/04ukraine.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has now said that he is open to new elections<\/a>, which is a big walk back, seeing as how he is at 3% in the former Soviet Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, Ukraine needs to develop a slightly less adversarial relationship with Russia, even if they are not fond of Russians themselves, a stance which the more pragmatic (and less batsh^% insane) Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, Yushchenko&#8217;s chief rival understands while he does not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how much of this is gamesmanship and how much is unrest over an economy falling at a double digit rate, but Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has now said that he is open to new elections, which is a big walk back, seeing as how he is at 3% in the former Soviet &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1000,1040,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-elections","category-former-soviet-union","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}