Politics

Listening to the fevered commentary that greeted the two most recent East European elections, you'd think the Soviet Union had risen from the dead. In both Belarus and Ukraine, the pundits fretted, pro-Moscow troglodytes had dominated the polls. In Ukraine, the results seemed to crush the fragile hopes of the Orange Revolution, barely a year old. In Belarus, fledgling protests were quickly squelched, dashing hopes for change...