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Kondaurov and others argue that the Russian authorities are terrified of the sort of "people power" that brought Viktor Yushchenko and Mikhail Saakashvili to power in Ukraine and Georgia. He sees a new dissident movement as "the only option," because power in today's Russia is now so concentrated in the hands of the Kremlin that any other opposition is futile. "It's very much the same as the case was in Soviet times," Kondaurov says...
...thanks to his own political makeover and the internal squabbles of Yushchenko's once triumphant coalition, Yanukovych came Friday afternoon to the Supreme Rada, Ukraine?s National Legislature, to be confirmed as Ukraine?s new Premier - and, as a result of recent reforms, actually take over many of the Presidential powers of his onetime nemesis, Yushchenko. The flamboyant Yuliya Tymoshenko, Yuschchenko's own onetime revolutionary partner and prime minister and now leader of the parliament's Byut faction, decried ?the sellout of the Orange Revolution" and pledged "stiff opposition? to the hatching coalition government of Yanukovych's PR faction...
...Instead, in a sudden about-face, the Socialists formed a Coalition with the PR and the Communists. That left Yushchenko with the legal option of nominating the Coalition Leader Yanukovych, however distasteful to him, for Premier, or disbanding the Rada, which risked aggravating the nation?s already yawning split. With suspense growing - and with two pre-taped TV addresses to the nation, one proclaiming the Rada disbanded, the other one announcing the ?Two-Viktors-One-Country? conciliatory formula - Yushchenko chose the last-minute compromise...
...terms of the National Unity pact he has forged with Yanukovych's coalition are discernable, however vague the wording: Yanukovych signed on to Ukraine?s moving closer politically to Europe, while Yushchenko agreed to improve cooperation with Russia - albeit only up to the point that would facilitate Ukraine?s trade with Russia, but won?t hurt Ukraine?s prospects for eventual WTO and EU membership. Both yielded on the divisive issue of Ukraine joining NATO: Yanukovych withdrew his avowed opposition to the move, while Yushchenko agreed to put the issue to a referendum. ?Yanukovych has evolved since December 2004, while...
...tactical terms, Yushchenko smartly used Yanukovych to neutralize Tymoshenko, her blend of populism, radicalism and charisma perceived as a bigger threat. Now, however, he may be able to just as effectively use Tymoshenko's opposition status to keep Yanukovych in check, should the latter?s evolution fail to prove sufficiently deep. The backstabbing and strange alliances might not be pretty, but they sure beat street fights, or storming Parliaments by tanks. For that reason, it can be argued, the compromise that brought the two Viktors together in power is actually the triumph, not the defeat, of the Orange Revolution...