26 May 2007

The unravelling Ukraine

It seems like only yesterday that Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko was a hero to supporters of democracy everywhere after he was victorious in his "Orange Revolution". How quickly things change. Yesterday, after he siezed command Interior Ministry troops and sacked the country's Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun, the country seems on the brink of violence and left Yushchenko appearing a despot.

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