From the editor: The balance of power

So Victor Yanukovych apparently fled into parts unknown, trailed by charges of murder after months of political unrest and popular protest against his regime.

In shorthand, the revolt against the Ukrainian president began when his government rejected a potential agreement with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Vladimir Putin’s Russia—notwithstanding Ukraine’s historic distrust of their neighbors, which runs so deep the people welcomed Hitler’s troops as liberators from their envelopment by the old Soviet Union. As a result, Ukrainians occupied the central square in Kie...