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...again, the way he did back in his first race in 1994. After all, a good portion of people will always prefer guaranteed rations and order to the messiness and uncertainty of freedom. That in many respects explains the amazing tenacity and comeback of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who lost the Presidency in December of 2004 to reformer Viktor Yushchenko after the people revolted against a clearly fraudulent initial election in a non-violent surge of people power. In this past weekend's parliamentary elections, Yanukovych's Party of the Regions (PR) led with over...
...Yanukovych's impressive showing may have been a surprise to Westerners who thought his time and eastward-looking agenda had come and gone, but it wasn't to him. Over the past year and a half, he has remade himself, hiring Western spin doctors rather than wasting funds on hapless Russian advisers. He became available to the media, and toned down his allegiance to Moscow, while still emphasizing the need to move to Europe "together with Russia." He also promised to ease the burden of high gas prices by re-entering the United Economic Space with Russia...
...Hollywood had decided to re-enact the orange revolution that less than 15 months ago installed the people's choice, Viktor Yushchenko, as Ukrainian President. In the Hollywood version Yushchenko would be an unimpeachable hero and his ousted rival, the former Russia-backed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, an unalloyed villain. But parliamentary elections this Sunday, the real reason for the colorful factional displays, are set to prove that there are no heroes in Ukrainian politics - and no irredeemable villains either. Three parties lead a field of 44 competing for the 450 seats in the parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. Yushchenko...
...that way in the fall of 2004, when she worked as a signer for the Ukrainian state-run television station UT-1. The runoff for the presidential elections had just taken place, and the tightly controlled TV broadcasters were reporting that outgoing President Leonid Kuchma's favored candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, had beaten challenger Viktor Yushchenko. But evidence was mounting that the vote was rigged, and a crowd of protesters had begun to gather in Kiev's freezing, snowbound Independence Square. On Nov. 25, Dmitruk was assigned to translate the afternoon news into sign language for a deaf audience of some...
...rules must be created here." Some think the entire scheme is just so much hot air. "I expect all this talk of reprivatization to fizzle out in a couple of weeks," says Volodymyr Rybak, a senior official in the Party of Regions run by Yushchenko's political opponent, Viktor Yanukovych. "We don't need reprivatization. We need more jobs." But Yushchenko has already shown that he's prepared to follow up on election promises. Last week, police arrested two men in connection with the murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, a critic of Kuchma's government whose decapitated body was found...