Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Whats going on in Ukraine?



In the last week there has been alot of things on the new about Ukraine - today it was demonstrations of the supporters of the 2 leading policians: President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

Yushchenko dissovled the parliament 2 weeks ago calling a new election in May - and this lead to a powerstruggle between the 2 main political figures of Ukraine...

But their struggle has ties back to the 2004 presidential elections where the Orange Revolution which swept Yushchenko to power, overturning a false Yanukovych election victory.

As far as I know - the whole core of their struggle is the foreign relations - Yuschenko believes in strong ties to the West - Yanukovych in very strong ties to Russia...

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