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...Political paralysis followed as the squabbling Orange leaders failed to mend their fences, leaving Yanukovych to build a legislative majority coalition to elect him premier. As Orange deputies defected en masse to the Yanukovych-led coalition, it threatened to grow powerful enough to marginalize the President. Yuschenko responded by dissolving the legislature and calling a new election...
...During those same 16 months since the victory of the so-called Orange Revolution, the new regime of President Yuschenko and his prime minister, the flamboyant Yuliya Tymoshenko, has delivered on many of its promises, but also been plagued by infighting and mutual accusations of corruption. On the one hand, business enjoyed the lifting of its tax burden and much red tape, ordinary folks got better wages and pensions, and the freedom of speech and the upheld rule of law made free elections feasible. But at the same time, those achievements have been undercut by periodic shortages of fuel...
...requiring certain tables to be reserved for nonsmokers. Last-Ditch Effort UKRAINE Viktor Yanukovych, the runner-up in the Dec. 26 re-run of the presidential election, filed a final appeal against the result. According to the Central Electoral Commission, Yanukovych lost to opposition leader Viktor Yuschenko by more than 2 million votes. The court has already rejected several appeals from Yanukovych over the re-run; Yuschenko's inauguration cannot take place until all legal challenges are exhausted. Peace Progress SUDAN More than two decades of civil war formally came to an end as the government and southern rebels signed...
...agency Ukrainian News - he was found hanging from a tree in a forest in neighboring Belarus - added to the mounting feeling of insecurity within the media. Many Ukrainians fear their country may be slipping back into totalitarianism. "We have failed to create a system that guarantees democracy," warns Viktor Yuschenko, leader of the Our Ukraine bloc, the largest opposition faction in parliament, and a former Prime Minister removed by Kuchma in April 2000 for his modest attempts at reform. "We are not just close to a dictatorship; we are already in a serious phase of dictatorship." Don't expect...
...best viewed as "a case study in state-sponsored looting." This week Ukraine is coming to the end of another bitter, rancorous and accusation-filled election. Officially at stake are the 450 seats in the parliament, or Verkhovna Rada. The most powerful challenge to Kuchma comes from Viktor Yuschenko, who acquired a modest reputation as a reformer during his time as Prime Minister and whose Our Ukraine bloc is way ahead in the polls. Yuschenko promises that "We'll build a Ukraine that we won't be ashamed of." The hidden agenda in the elections, Ukrainian observers say, is Kuchma...