No stranger to Ukraine's rough-and-tumble
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Chicago Tribune - Two weeks after falling prey to dioxin poisoning, Viktor Yushchenko strode into Ukraine's parliament. The chamber fell still. Everyone gawked at Yushchenko's face, bloated with cysts and lesions. Yushchenko walked to his desk and slammed his papers down. "Why are you looking at me?" he shouted.
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On the frozen streets of Kiev, the people of the Ukraine have risen up, demanding full democracy. But amid hopes of another European velvet revolution there are fears that Russia will yet intervene.
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KIEV : Ukrainians voted for a new president, choosing between a Western-leaning reformer and their pro-Russian prime minister, in a bitterly-fought contest that many fear could provoke turmoil and even violence.
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Orange has seeped into all nooks and crannies in Ukraine's western city of Lviv -- orange gowns pose in window shops, orange standards flutter from flag poles, orange ribbons are tied around policemen arms.
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UKRAINE remains an indepen dent state. For now. But last week&#39;s shamelessly rigged presidential-election results were engineered by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin&#39;s security services.
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When protesters thronged the streets of Kiev to protest presidential election fraud, most Ukrainians barely saw the drama on TV. Most stations toed the line that the establishment candidate had won. The picture has changed markedly since then, but critics warn that TV channels might have merely switched sides, not mindsets.
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KIEV -- The roots of Ukraine's political crisis lie in a centuries-old divide between the country's east and west, a split between two cultures, two languages, and two histories within the same nation.
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The opposition may control Kiev. But as a coal miner put it, "Kiev is not Ukraine."
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Ever since the election in Ukraine, reformers have won just about every tactical political or public relations battle. A key reason for this is paradoxical.
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Donetsk - The birth of democracy has taken on a new meaning in Ukraine on Sunday and it is all thanks to a Viktor - and he has not been any of the two presidential candidates.
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CHICAGO Thousands of Ukrainians in Chicago and elsewhere in the Midwest have left no doubt about their choice for president in Ukraine.
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Canadians take a keen interest in Ukraine&#39;s well-being. More than a million of us have ties there. Canada was the first Western democracy to recognize Ukraine&#39;s post-Soviet independence in 1991.
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Once again, the Kremlin-backed candidate will face the opposition leader who favors closer ties with the West. But little else will ever be the same for Ukraine, where a
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MOSCOW, December 29 (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev). The presidential runoff in Ukraine on Sunday did not bring any unexpected developments.
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Ukraine's feuding presidential candidates failed to find a clear way out of a standoff over a contested presidential election that has brought tens of thousands in the streets, but new elections looked likely.
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They traded insults and accusations of corruption for nine months. Now with the team that led Ukraine&#039;s 2004 Orange Revolution reunited and aiming to govern together again, maintaining the peace may turn out to be the easiest task on their agenda.
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A mid the clamor and confusion of the US elections, it is easy to forget that ballots are being held elsewhere in the world. This week Ukraine held a presidential election, and while the outcome will not shape