Refreshed at 0900GMT ThursdayWriting Worth Reading | July 29, 2010

1 A victory for Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine's presidential elections may be the last free vote the country sees for a long time, says Nina Khrushcheva on the eve of Sunday's poll

2 China is really a consultative democracy say the authors of Megatrends

3 What Martin Luther King would have made of Twitter

4 Blame the child, ignorant American public—not politicians—for America's political and economic crisis