Viktor Yushchenko
May 22, 2010By Yurii SHCHERBAK, Ukraine’s ex-Ambassador to the US and Canada Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him... “But this is your hour, and the power of darkness”. Luke...
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...
Yushchenko defends making Bandera, Shukhevych 'heroes of Ukraine'
March 24, 2010Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said he is concerned by talk of overturning his decrees awarding World War II-era nationalist leaders Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych the Hero of Ukraine Order, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Yushchenko...
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...
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...
Yanukovych wins the Ukrainian presidential election as new uncertainties emerge
February 09, 2010By Pavel Korduban As expected, opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has won the February 7 presidential election runoff. Unlike in 2004, when Yanukovych lost a controversial poll to Viktor Yushchenko and his supporters were accused of large-scale election...
Ukraine needs a president who can break the spell
February 05, 2010By Serhiy Hrabovsky No matter who is ultimately elected Ukrainian president in the February 7 runoff, the winner cannot become president of all Ukrainians. The mere fact of being elected will not make the winner president of all Ukrainians. Considerable...
Ukraine: Tensions rise as presidential candidates stage final rallies
February 05, 2010By Gregory Feifer Ukraine's two presidential candidates appealed to voters in their final campaign appearances ahead of a pivotal election on Sunday that's being overshadowed by accusations of possible vote-rigging and threats of mass street protests...
Leonid Kuchma: Ukrainians should be ashamed
February 01, 2010Ahead of the February 7 runoff, former President Leonid Kuchma says the country's political system is dysfunctional As the second round of Ukraine's presidential election approaches, former President Leonid Kuchma says the country's political system...
Berezovsky: Ukraine vote 'key' for west's future
January 26, 2010Fugitive Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky says the world's key political event is currently taking place in Ukraine, not Iran, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. Berezovsky told RFE/RL from London that he thinks "the West does not comprehend the...