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This book was written during the first months of 2014 when the story of the new Ukraine emerged phase by phase. An end was not visible yet for a long time – especially not one which could satisfy the Ukrainian people.

Whereas the persons of this thriller are all absolute fictitious, even those related to the institutions of different countries, the financial frames as for instance the blocked accounts or the massive flight of capital out of the Ukraine and Russia into the West are absolute correct – as in all the books of this series. The same is true for the huge losses of value of the Ukrainian money, the Griwna, and of the Ruble. At the end of March 2014, Russia had lost the financial war already: eighty billion Euros had left the country at steadily falling exchange rates and the trend continued. The national wealth of Russia had lost incredible amounts of value. How should the country recover from that?

Another financial factor was that investments into Russia would strongly be reduced for a long time and – if at all – it could only be compensated by China. In 2014, it did not seem to go this way, either. On top, one could ask whether the Russian nationalists would appreciate a stronger dependency on China or whether the Chinese would appreciate an unpredictable partner with financial problems of huge dimensions.

After decades of monumental corruption in the Ukraine (and in Russia for that matter), one can only hope that the newly elected government will be able to stifle this economical cancer step-by-step. The ethnic diversity of the Ukraine is already quite a challenge in itself; the post-Putin renaissance of a peaceful Russia will be another one.

Eastern 2014 Larry B. Ritter