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UKRAINE REVOLUTION – Look Inside The Luxury Mansion of President Yanukovych – YouTube – 2/23/2014.
Sorry about the last clip. I had brief cause to check back on this post and found it totally gone — but other clips remain available (update: 3/3/2014).
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Related: Up to speed: Uncertainty reigns in a divided Ukraine – CNN.com – with video – 2/24/2014.
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The CNN footage: great (and in English). “The luxury never seemed to end,” says Nick Paton Walsh.
What kind of a world has Putin in mind that laces together so much wealth beneath private hands sustained on state treasuries and armies?
“Putin-Assad-Khamenei” has become a trope on this blog.
“Putin-Yanukovych” may have too, but he is gone and the people of the Ukraine have, probably, a new museum and park — and, also possibly, a new brand of vodka with a pirate’s cachet.
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