Quotable notes

"Paradoxically, in the past 10 years the pro-Western Ukrainians have found support and understanding in the United States rather than in the European Union. The European side has proposed nothing new apart from the idea of a 'buffer zone,' which is already 100 years old. [This zone] is a sort of gray territory between Russia and the West, intended to serve the sole purpose of not erecting any barriers to their, Russia's and the West's, partnership."

- Ukrainian writer Yurii Andrukhovych in Berliner Zeitung on May 2, as quoted by the Ukrainska Pravda website and cited by RFE/RL Belarus and Ukraine Report.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, May 16, 2004, No. 20, Vol. LXXII

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