5 Big Questions About the Future of Ukraine

KIEV, Ukraine - History books will record the past week as the Ukraine's most significant, and tragic, since the end of Soviet rule. Nearly 100 protesters were killed, many by government snipers; the nation's president, Viktor Yanukovych, was deposed and his opulent lifestyle exposed to the public; and the president's political rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, was released from prison and made a triumphant return to Kiev, where she delivered a forceful and emotional speech while seated in a wheelchair.

On Sunday, Ukraine's Parliament took steps to form a new government, appointing Speaker Oleksandr Turchinov as the nation's acting president, pending the outcome of newly scheduled elections on May 25. Lawmakers also unanimously reversed a sweeping array of anti-speech and anti-protest laws that Parliament itself enacted in mid-January and it voted to return Yanukovych's lavish estate to the people. Read more...