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YANUKOVYCH

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 5, 2014
Japan's embrace of Russia under threat with Ukraine crisis
Russia's incursion into Ukraine is setting off alarm bells in Tokyo, where officials worry that any push by the nation's Western allies to impose economic penalties will undermine its drive to improve relations with Moscow.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 5, 2014
Tide of opinion turns against Russia in Ukraine's east
More than 1,000 demonstrators with Ukrainian flags took to the streets of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Tuesday, for the first time outnumbering pro-Moscow youths who have seized its government building, which flies the Russian flag.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 4, 2014
Amid Ukraine turmoil, ghosts of Cold War return to haunt Eastern Europe
Alzbeta Ehrnhofer was a 13-year-old Slovak schoolgirl when the Soviet Army poured into Czechoslovakia to "restore order" after the 1968 Prague Spring promised some freedoms to the Warsaw Pact nation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 4, 2014
Putin gambit challenges post-Cold War system
One senior Obama administration official called Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions in the Ukraine "outrageous." A second described them as an "outlaw act." A third said his brazen use of military force harks back to a past century.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 3, 2014
West finds its hands tied over crisis in Ukraine
With Western powers coming to the conclusion that Ukraine has lost Crimea to Russia, the U.S. and its allies face few viable options and serious questions over future relations.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2014
Tips for electing a leader with common sense
One way voters perhaps can eliminate a presidential candidate from consideration is to look at his or her watch. If it costs more than $500, they should find someone else to vote for, someone whose interests extend beyond personal enrichment.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 3, 2014
Putin takes on West over Ukraine: Who blinks first?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken a gamble on Ukraine and is betting that U.S. leader Barack Obama will blink first.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 2, 2014
Moscow keeps ex-Soviet states firmly in line
Russian President Vladimir Putin's ex post facto request to use military forces in Ukraine should not really have come as a surprise. The big question is: What does he want?
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Mar 1, 2014
Yanukovych son's biz empire probed
On a street in ousted President Viktor Yanukovych's political stronghold, Donetsk, stands the imposing headquarters of the Mako Group, a Ukrainian conglomerate spanning banking to construction.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 1, 2014
Yanukovych resurfaces in Russia; claims to be Ukraine's rightful leader
Speaking for the first time since leaving Ukraine, fugitive president Yanukovych labels the parliament in Kiev illegitimate and vows to return when it's safe.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 28, 2014
U.S. strategy on Russia under fire
Days after his ally Viktor Yanukovych was ousted as Ukraine's leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a 150,000-troop Russian military exercise on Ukraine's border. The fall of Yanukovych — and Putin's potential response to it — has reignited a debate in Washington on how to respond to the assertive Russian leader.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 26, 2014
'Hero of the Maidan' prompted leader's exit
When the history of the bloody turbulence in Ukraine is written, a 26-year-old who learned combat skills in the army cadets may be recorded as the man who made up President Viktor Yanukovych's mind to cut and run.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 25, 2014
Moscow slams 'armed mutiny,' says it will not deal with Kiev's new leaders
Moscow says it will not deal with those who led an 'armed mutiny' against Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovich, who was elected in 2010, and said it now fears for the lives of its citizens, notably in the Russian-speaking east and Crimea on the Black Sea.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 25, 2014
Yanukovych 'planned to use troops to crush protesters'
Before he was ousted as Ukraine president, Viktor Yanukovych drew up plans to use thousands of troops to crush the protests that eventually toppled him, according to a leaked document published online.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2014
Ukraine's agony may be final Cold War episode
Ukraine's agony is a reverberation of the protracted process of cleaning up after the Soviet Union 'experiment.' So, this is perhaps the final episode of the Cold War.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2014
After ouster, Yanukovych whereabouts, future destinations still a mystery
Big and burly with two convictions for assault, Viktor Yanukovych is hard to miss. But after a day of high drama and intrigue, the whereabouts of the ousted Ukrainian president were a mystery.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 23, 2014
Ukraine at crossroads as Moscow's man in Kiev exits
Seen from the point of view of President Vladimir Putin, Russia's foreign policy of late had been enjoying something of a purple patch.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 22, 2014
In Kiev, snipers turn protest area into battlefield
It only takes one word for people on Independence Square to dash for cover: "Sniper!"
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 22, 2014
Yanukovych faces pressure from powerful oligarch backers
Marooned among empty seats in the Ukrainian parliament, Vadim Novinsky broke with the ruling Party of Regions and voted in favor of a bill condemning the violence that has left dozens dead in Kiev during a week of bloodshed.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2014
EU effort bound for conflict
The EU's effort to build a political association with Ukraine in order eventually to make Ukraine an EU member has been extremely reckless and was inevitably destined to end in conflict.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
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Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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