The illustration is from St. Petersburg Dissenter March that took place in 2007. I thought the orange fog and the punk were somehow fitting. The sign reads: 'Berezovsky, we are with you!'

Borya the 'democract' is getting angry that his investment backfired :-), take a look...

I am addressing you, 'peripheral nation', to all of you without exception who supported Yanukovych.

You elected a gangster as your hetman (1) and a younger brother of his older brother. (2)

I am convinced not for long.

However I can't understand how many mega-liters of sycophantic (3) blood must flow through the veins of each one of you (You don't read Chekhov!), that you...in the internet age, the age of a Large Hadron Collider, the age of genetic engineering could fall for such ugliness?

'...' (4) Settle firm in the stinkiest 'yawning heights' (5) of the bygone days. Your gene pool survived worse genocides. But in your ignorant flight don't forget that as long as your hetman is a gangster you will live on the margins and not in Ukraine. (6)

PS: (7) I want to personally address the leader of the democratic world, US President Barack Obama and the ideologue of the contemporary Russian ignorance Vladimir Zhirinovsky, even though they didn't have direct influence in the election, but were the first to congratulate Yanukovych for his victory. 

Gentlemen, I don't see a shred of coincidence in your sympathetic decision to acknowledge gangster as a leader of great European country.

In the Fall of 2004, according to reports of Fox News and CNN, US political elite found out with surprise about the existence, in the center of Europe, of an independent, nearly 50 000 000 country, but I still get the felling that democratic Iraq and Afghanistan are somehow more important than democratic Ukraine.

You Mr. Zhirinovsky, never acknowledged Ukraine as independent.

I want you Mr. Obama and you Mr. Zhirinovsky to remember a quote from the French writer de La Rochefoucauld: 'A politician's ability to look forward is dependant on how much he can look back.' And then there will be no illusions about a 'restart' (8) nor will there be any illusion that the future is behind the Ukrainian and not the marginal nation.

It is not advisable that you gentlemen, such wise politicians, ignore history.

-Boris Berezovsky, 17 February 2010, London for Ukrainska Pravda

Original is here.

1) пахана - гетманом -a poetic wordplay I was not able to express in English. Speaking of comparisons of saviours with gangsters, I remember seeing it at one other place where... :-))

2) The older brother probably lives in Moscow

3) рабской - literally meaning 'slave blood'

4) Перо в вам в ж... -Feather in your WTF? If somebody knows how to translate this so it captures the meaning please tell me.

5) A reference to Alexander Zinoviev's book of the same name in which the author criticises the Soviet system. I recall seeing Novodvorskaya on Ekho Moskvy saying that 'the Ukrainians elected Soviet trash.' Somehow this whole argument also reminds me of Yul'ka's elitist article.

6) на окраине, а не в Украине - a poetic play on words, it basically means that 'You, Ukrainians will be marginalized because you made a decision without considering what our opinions are.' It was kind of hard to cut through Borya's prose but that's what it essentially means.

7) Post scriptum is a longer string of bollocks than the scriptum itself.

8) перезагрузки - restart in American-Russian relation that came out as overload. I wonder which of the countries is more overloaded with debt and foreign policy engagements, including military.

Hat tip goes to Alxandre Lasta

Update: Kyiv Post also has an English translation