Mr Yanukovych, who only a few days ago was seen as a man who could take Ukraine into Europe, is now seen as a thug who robbed his country of a historic chance.Given the structural weakness of the Ukrainian economy as well as Russia's own economic stagnation, a short-term injection of cash will not solve Ukraine's problems.
LONDON — With the leaders of both parties in the governing coalition pledged to uphold their pact until a new election in 2015, Britain, at least on the face of it, has the basis for political stability as it wrestles with the financial crisis roiling Europe and the apparent drift of Britain's own economy toward stagnation.
Words like "uprising" and "revolution" only hint at the scale of events in Egypt, which have already reverberated across Yemen, Jordan, Syria and even Saudi Arabia, offering a new template for change in a region that long reeled from its own sense of stagnation.
I came across this essay written eight years ago and felt its message was not only timeless but also impeccably timed for today in light of recent wars, cataclysms and our own government's stagnation.
Handlen also described the episode as being tense on its own, but suffering from "stagnation" when held as part of the series' ongoing mythology.
He needs an atmosphere of continuous crisis and grievance to maintain support at home, to distract his own public from the corruption, stagnation, and repression that are his real record as a leader.
Buoyed up by its own economic success and Western stagnation, China has been asserting its claims in the region more aggressively, sending the neighbours scuttling back to the American security umbrella.
Trade with Japan was, of course, a major U.S. political issue throughout the 1980s, until that country entered a long stagnation of its own.
Whilst I doubt we'll hear any politician utter the phrase "secular stagnation" in our own general election campaign, it is (beneath the surface) one of the issues at stake.
Right Wing money capitalized on anger at the economic stagnation that their own policies caused just two years before.
