Ukraine

Ukraine must foremost improve its democratic ratings because the U.S. government won’t close its eyes to human rights abuses and rollback in democratic practices.

The [Russia-led] Customs Union will kill EU free trade: Do you want a Customs Union with a $2 trillion a year economy or do you want to go to the largest economy in the world, [representing] some $15 trillion to $16 trillion a year?

Part of [Ukrainian President] Yanukovych’s obstinacy may result from an inflated sense of Ukraine’s geopolitical weight.