Ukraine’s election: Is it all about the Russians?

Carl Thomson argues that the tendency to interpret Ukraine’s current political crisis as a straightforward conflict between those who want the country to be 'pro-Western' in outlook, and those who wish it to adopt a 'pro-Russian' stance, is overly simplistic. He warns that popular misconceptions about Ukraine are being exploited by politicians in Kiev looking to promote their own interests and by those in Europe and America pushing for conflict with
Putin’s Russia as a means of furthering their own ideological and geopolitical agenda.