Orange Revolution
Ukraine: Tymoshenko on trial in Kiev for abuse of power
June 24, 2011Ukraine's former prime minister and heroine of the 2004 Orange Revolution Yulia Tymoshenko has gone on trial in Kiev for abuse of power. Mrs Tymoshenko has dismissed the charges, which concern natural gas contracts with Russia, as revenge by her rival...
The Maidan on the Tahrir Square is bad news for Putin
February 09, 2011Russian mainstream media provides extensive coverage of the unfolding revolution in the streets of Cairo, in contrast with China where the word Egypt is banned from the news and blocked in the Internet. Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, is not known for...
Will Moldova be the next Ukraine?
July 30, 2010By Vlad Spanu Less than a year after the country's last elections, the Republic of Moldova finds itself at a crossroads once again. The "Twitter revolution" in Chisinau last April that made waves in the international media mirrored, somehow...
Taras Kuzio: Ukraine's fractured opposition
April 16, 2010By Taras Kuzio During the four years between the unveiling of secret tapes made by a presidential guard in November 2000 that implicated President Leonid Kuchma, the speaker of parliament, and the security forces in the abduction and murder of an opposition...
Ukraine's Orange coalition collapses
March 03, 2010By Gregory Feifer Weeks after losing a presidential election, Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko now faces losing her job as prime minister. A key ally has announced Tymoshenko's ruling coalition has collapsed ahead of a parliamentary vote of no confidence...
Yanukovych sworn in as Ukraine president (video)
February 25, 2010By Gregory Feifer Five years after the Orange Revolution ousted him from power, Ukraine's pro-Moscow opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has been sworn in as president. Trumpets blared inside Ukraine's parliament building this morning as a confident...
Russia makes new demands on Ukraine after Yanukovich’s victory
February 22, 2010By Paul Goble Moscow has demanded that incoming Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich among other things end Kyiv’s contacts with the CIA and allow the FSB to return to Crimea, part of a more general effort by Russia to exploit the election outcome...
Stop already with the 'Is Ukraine tilting East or West?' obsession
February 20, 2010By Nadia McConnell and Irene Jarosewich The myopic perspective of Western observers, analysts, and governments that the politics and governance of Ukraine must be seen always through some sort of Russia lens needs to come to an end. This tired, yet...
Yushchenko facilitates Yanukovych’s election, buries the Orange Revolution
February 16, 2010By Taras Kuzio Two major myths promoted by President Viktor Yushchenko in Ukraine’s 2010 presidential elections were that there was no difference in policies between the two main candidates, Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko, and that both...
Victor Yanukovych promises stronger ties between Ukraine and Russia
February 15, 2010Ukraine president-elect Viktor Yanukovych said he plans to strengthen links with Russia and that improved relations would end the threat of continuing gas rows, which last year curbed supplies to Europe. Yanukovych, a former prime minister who narrowly...