.... with Yushchenko and other opposition lead­ It was also very dangerous. At that mo­ ers at the Mariinsky Palace, setting the ment, tensions were near-fissile. Opposition stage for their ultimate victory. The peaceful leaders were pushing Kuchma to sign a new outcome is a credit to the new president’s...

..., west, and center. Regional divides have been apparent in voting patterns—for parliament and president—since the end of the Soviet Union and have contributed to the country’s political crises. In the 2004 presidential runoff election between Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko, both candidates...

..., vehemently dismiss all the evidence of the enthusiastic supported Putin’s intervention in Ukrainian popular support of Viktor Yushchenko.60 As politics.54 Some bluntly declared what Putin summarized by one newspaper article, “If could not say himself: “Ukraine is our coun­ we give up Ukraine...

.... observers—and by Ukrainian demon­ ernment corruption. Others are thought to strators. When the race was rerun, Viktor have been revenge killings ordered by local Yushchenko triumphed easily, and Putin politicians. When Paul Klebnikov, editor was left to gripe from the sidelines. Yush­ of Forbes Russia...