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"The intimidation of Nico Lange (Director of the Ukrainian branch of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the research organization of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union party who was put in a detention cell and held for 10 hours after arrival in Kiev) is not unusual in today’s Ukraine, a country where the euphoria of the 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution has evaporated. All the more reason, say analysts and diplomats, for the European Union and especially Germany to adopt a much stronger and united policy if they want to prevent Ukraine from sliding away from democracy and moving into the orbit of Russia."
AND.... "Since Viktor F. Yanukovich was elected the Ukrainian president last February and his Party of Regions took power, journalists, local and foreign nongovernmental organizations and independent television channels have come under pressure from the security services."
