Yushchenko Faces Many Tasks As President
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With a demeanor described as professorial and the quiet hobbies of landscape painting and antique collecting, Viktor Yushchenko seems an unlikely candidate to have provoked a peaceful revolution.
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Liberal Viktor Yushchenko will need to win by a wide margin in a new presidential election if he wants to carry out a major overhaul of what he sees as 13 years of corrupt government.
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"So today the possibility of forming a democratic government is very high."  Sitting down for an interview, President Viktor Yushchenko's face and hands tell a story of his struggles -- and Ukraine's. Above his dark suit and striped red tie, his face is badly scarred three years after ... via Oregonlive.com
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Viktor Yushchenko was sworn in as the third president of post-Soviet Ukraine, capping months of political turmoil that saw the strategic nation turn away from traditional Russian influence toward the West.
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The president faces an array of challenges on issues from warrantless wiretaps to military tribunals.
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Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukrainian opposition leader who is suffering from dioxin poisoning, is preparing to press on to victory in a re-run of the rigged presidential election.
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STRASBOURG, France  - Ukrainian President Viktor  Yushchenko, visiting the heart of Western Europe after a trip  to Russia, vowed Tuesday to do all he can to ensure that  democratic changes in his country are irreversible.
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Liberal Viktor Yushchenko, who won last  month's presidential election re-run, will be sworn in as  Ukraine's new president on Sunday, ending weeks of political  turmoil in the ex-Soviet state.
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The European Union's foreign policy chief  met Ukrainian president-elect Viktor Yushchenko on Friday and  said it was up to him and his people to work hard to achieve  their objective of moving toward the West.
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Throughout the electoral campaign and the demonstrations he led through the streets of Kyiv, Yushchenko promised his people big changes if they elected him president.
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KIEV -- Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition leader whose victory in Ukraine's presidential election was all but assured yesterday despite his opponent's threat to appeal the outcome, is expected to move quickly to bolster ties with the West while trying to ease tensions with Russia.
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MOSCOW -- President-elect Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine moved yesterday to repair relations with Russia, announcing that he will visit Moscow the day after his inauguration Sunday. He then will make a swing through the European Union, which Ukraine hopes to join, before returning home to the former Soviet republic.
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Viktor Yushchenko's path to the Ukrainian presidency was one of the most tortuous of any modern leader's: three elections in as many months, weeks of mass demonstrations, lengthy court battles and grisly detours to Vienna for treatment of a near-lethal poisoning.
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Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko speaks to members of the media during a press conference in Kiev, in this Friday, Nov. 19, 2004 file photo.
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Ukrainian opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, with his face disfigured by illness, during an interview with the Associated Press in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004.
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Tensions and risk flared anew in Ukraine on Tuesday after Viktor A. Yushchenko, the opposition leader and presumptive president-elect, called for his supporters to renew
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The parliament is likely to decide to prolong its session to conduct the inauguration of the new-elected President of Ukraine and to appoint the Prime Minister.