democratic. in fact, it had been a full democracy, but it had been backsliding. it also had a population who had divided itself politically. so their political parties were divided not only along ethnic lines but to some degree, linguistic lines. that s not going away in ukraine. western ukraine will always be much more heavily russia leaning. it contains a large proportion of its population who came from russia over the last 50 years who are russian speakers and that s eastern ukraine, and western ukraine is going to be much more heavily ethnically ukrainian and they want to join more with the west and europe. and in some respects i can