[moocowduckquack]

The hippies and love-children and down-with-the-man types of the 60s and 70s have been in power for the last quarter century.

In the Ukraine? Are you completely mental?

[MrZongle2]

Worldwide.

There are certainly plenty of examples here in the U.S.

[jedmeyers]

There is no "the" in Ukraine.

[Mikeb85]

While this is true, the word 'Ukraine' comes from a Slavic word for 'border' or 'region', so using 'the' in front of it makes sense when you consider the original meaning of the name and how English is spoken. All my Canadian-Ukrainian relatives say 'the Ukraine', even though as the proper name of a country you should just say 'Ukraine'.

[moocowduckquack]

There used to be. I didn't realise till I just looked it up ( http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ukraine.html ) that they had officially dropped the 'the' after 1990, I thought either was correct.