Chris Buford writes: > There is also an understated linked contradiction with > the religious > split reflecting centuries of different historical > experience between > the Catholic west and the Orthodox east.
Chris Doss writes: > It's a conflict between East and West Ukraine, town > (except for Kiev) and country, Russians and > Ukrainians, and the Russian and Ukrainian languages. > Really Ukraine should be split into two countries ... Is it also a conflict between the corrupt old bureau-garchs left over from the Soviet period and the new up-and-coming wannabe corrupt capitalist types -- and their respective supporters? (I am ignorant on this question.) JD
