By Alec Torres December 19, 2013 12:04 PM As hundreds of thousands continue to occupy Kiev’s Maidan square, and protests rage across Ukraine, plenty of explanations have been offered for the unrest, which was triggered by the Ukrainian president’s considering a closer relationship with Russia. It’s about a clash of economic interests, some say, or the divide…

The conflict that we are seeing today stems from a deadly famine that Stalin engineered back in 1932. By Andrea Chalupa Dec. 17, 2013 In Ukraine, the nationalistic West is Ukrainian-speaking and welcomes the EU, while the Russian-speaking East, where current president Victor Yanukovcyh rose to power, sees the Kremlin as an indispensable ally and…