Word: yushchenko
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...Campaigning for Sunday's vote, all the parties have rolled out familiar themes in the hope of stirring up the electorate. The unsolved mystery of Yushchenko's dioxin-poisoning ordeal during his presidential showdown with Yanukovych has been raised by the President's allies. But one of his opponents, Socialist Interior Minister Vasyl Tsushko, accuses the President's men of poisoning him during the summer. Both sides have been doing their damnedest to bring people back to Kiev Independence Square, the heart of the Orange Revolution. But the enthusiasm of that moment has long given way to disenchantment and cynicism...
...Already by March 2006, it was clear that the Orange Revolution had began to turn sour, when the Party of the Regions (PR) led by Victor Yanukovych - the Moscow ally who had lost the presidential race to Yushchenko - won a 32% plurality of the votes in the legislative election. The BYUT party of Yuliya Tymoshenko, erstwhile flamboyant princess of the Orange Revolution who had been fired as premier by Yushchenko six months earlier, finished second. Yushchenko's Our Ukraine (OU) barely made the third place...
...with a political reform that transferred considerable powers from the office of the President to the Rada and made the Prime Minister a Rada-nominated position. After controversial parliamentary maneuvering, Yanukovych became Prime Minister and immediately began to dismantle the President's already diminishing powers by, for example, purging Yushchenko's Ministers from his Cabinet. Led by his well-funded and organized party, Yanukovych's coalition, now boasting 262 Rada votes, has been steadily stealing support from orange factions, which now control just 198 votes...
...standoff, but its outcome will have broad implications for Ukraine's role in world politics. Last month the U.S. Senate approved a bill providing support and funding for Ukraine's candidacy to join nato. Moscow bitterly opposes this and has long been more friendly to the anti-nato Yanukovych. "Yushchenko sees us as a huge log that blocks his path to nato," a Rada deputy of Yanukovych's faction told Time. "He also knows that this log is stuffed with cash," he added, suggesting that money enticed many of the politicians who have changed allegiance...
...Yanukovych's coalition grows to 300, it will have the power to change the constitution and abolish the presidency, a prospect that encouraged Yushchenko to strike first and dissolve the Rada. Tensions are growing. In a mirror image of the orange fall of 2004, a tent city has rapidly formed around Kiev's Rada and Cabinet buildings, though this time in pro-Yanukovych blue and white. These colors mix with the red banners of his communist and socialist coalition allies in Independence Square, while orange loyalists have set a defensive tent ring around the President's office. The Crimean autonomous...