Ukraine's dictator laws passed 11 years ago

Fortunately, Viktor Yanukovych failed and was run out of the country a month later, on Feb. 22, 2014, but democracy requires eternal vigilance everywhere.

This is Kyiv Post chief editor Brian Bonner’s summary of the Jan. 16, 2014, edition, which can be read here in PDF format:

We are thrilled to bring advertisers, readers, and subscribers the first Kyiv Post print edition of 2014. However, we are not thrilled to report that the Party of Region,s and Communist Party today in parliament passed a raft of anti-democratic measures, including the criminalization of libel. Read the news story Gorchinskaya's opinion on page 5 today.

Most of the rest of the newspaper’s coverage flows from our cover story "EuroMaidan Status Report," a wrap-up of events over the holidays and a look at what's ahead.

Enjoy and thanks from all of us at the "Independence. Community. Trust" newspaper.