Blogging the democratic revolution
-Discoshaman has your January 9th update here, complete with pictures. And to think we have to wait 24 hours for each update! -Terry Rogers has a roundup of articles about the reaction in Russia to Yanukovich’s defeat. -And before I forget, don’t you forget to buy your Orange Revolution gear.
The Orange Revolution caused quite a stir among the international crowd these past few months. Supporters and election observers from all of the world flew in to participate and watch. I know I was watching. Most importantly, however, as these revolutions are carried out, lessons are being learned by those who have not yet been able to have one of their own. Students from the Belarus civil resistance group ZUBR have been watching and learning in Kiev. Now, ZUBR has been one of the weaker movements when compared to OTPOR, which ousted Slobodan Milosevic, Georgian KMARA of the Rose Revolution,…
For those of you who don’t know the inscrutable Discoshaman, he is the owner of the blog Le Sabot Post-Moderne. For the past two months, he has become a daily read for me without hesitation. This is a man who is in Kiev and truly blogging the revolution. He is joined by his lovely wife TulipGirl and Orange Ukraine with stirring up all kinds of revolutionary trouble in Ukraine. On January 7, the Supreme Court of Ukraine threw out the last of Yanukovich’s claims to election fraud against Yuschenko. Isn’t that ironic? Now, according to Maidan, the Central Election Commission…