Dear friends, Im currently with family in Hong Kong but my thoughts and heart go out to my family and friends thousands of miles away in the Ukraine. Why should you bother reading my take on it when the main news channels are already dominated by Ukraine stories? Heres why. I have had first hand updates from old school friends and their families who are based in both West and East Ukraine. For almost a decade, I went to school together with them. Importantly, the school we all went to was one of the very few Russian speaking schools in West Ukraine and our education had the emphasis on preserving Russian culture. This is important because the insights I hear from Ukraine come from these well educated school friends who have a long standing affinity for the Russian language and culture. Many of them now live in the capital Kiev and some are currently on the barricades in the main Independence Square. You may ask, why listen to them? After all, they are just individual opinions. In my view, it’s important that they are. Individual opinion is exactly how voting works in the UK Parliament, for example, as well as in the US Congress and in every court case involving a jury. It’s the basis of both democracy and the rule of law - having a range of opinions to make sure you modify the extremes and get as fair and balanced a result as possible. These are normal people, who want a normal life.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:45:09 +0000
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