WARSAW, Poland (AP) — These are frustrating times for those yearning to see Western democratic standards take root in Ukraine, Georgia and other former Soviet states wedged between Russia and the West.
Most of the troubled region's countries have been backsliding or stagnant regarding democracy recently, damaging their on-and-off struggle for deeper integration with the West.
Meanwhile, the European Union, which has tried to inspire transformative change with promises of eventual EU membership for some, is mostly focused these days on solving its own economic crisis in the euro zone, showing less interest than before in a region still mired in corruption and other …
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