Putin's Russia.

• Author: Webster-Gardiner, Graham
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

Cathy Young ("Putin's Russia," August/ September) confirms that Russia is not a great place to five, but she gives too much credence to the Ukrainians and the European Union (E.U.).

As an English expat legally residing in the United States I know how undemocratic, unaccountable, bureaucratic, and intolerant the European Union is--a reason I left England. The E.U. stirred up the problems in Ukraine for its own grand expansion plans.

Ukraine itself has been corrupt and incompetent since independence in 1991. And before that it had a...