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Stephen J. Flanagan

Former researcher at the Center For Strategic & International Studies, high ranking official at the Department of State (1989-1995) and the person in charge of the Central and Eastern European countries at the National Security Council (1997-1999), Stephen J. Flanagan is the director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University.

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“Ukraine: don’t go wobbly on the orange”

by Eugene B. Rumer, Stephen J. Flanagan

19 October 2005

When Viktor Yushchenko dismissed Yulia Tymoshenko he disappointed the friends of Ukraine who had believed in the orange revolution. That revolution was not the last step to democracy and all steps are not taken in the same direction. Europe and the United States should be patient with Ukraine. (...)