Ukraine without government as 'orange' revolution turns sour

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By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
Published: 20 April 2006

... Almost one month after Ukrainians cast their vote in a parliamentary election, there is still no agreement on who will form a new coalition government despite weeks of talks.

To the general disbelief of orange supporters, the two figureheads of the revolution, President Viktor Yushchenko, and former prime minister Julia Tymoshenko, are struggling to form a government and have instead become embroiled in tit-for-tat recriminations.

A preliminary agreement to form a coalition government of orange forces uniting the politicians who participated in the pro-Western velvet revolution of 2004, was agreed on 13 April. It was seen as the only way of keeping the pro-Russian Party of the Regions, the party that lost the revolution but spectacularly won last month's elections, out of power ...

But yesterday that pact did not look like it was worth the paper it was written on. No sooner had it been signed than it begun to unravel, with Mr Yushchenko's supporters saying they were opposed to any suggestion that the fiery and charismatic Ms Tymoshenko would become Ukraine's new prime minister. It was a job she did until September of last year, when Mr Yushchenko abruptly sacked her for allegedly spending too much time polishing her own image, for apparently being too radical on the economy, and for picking too many fights with some of his closest advisers ...

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article358835.ece

[Kagemusha]

1. So how long until they're as bad as Iraq?

Just wondering out loud here. It's the obvious comparison.

[lostexpectation]

2. no its not

[PATRICK]

3. This is what we get

for meddling in order to get our type of guy elected. Forget about the "democracy" building. They picked a horse in the humpty dumpty image of America's two party swamp. You get what you paid for. Of course the supports America provided in the game aspects of campaigning had no cognizance of what democracy was really about as shame after shame preceded this foreign affairs "triumph" in our own abomination of an election in 2004.

It will all fail. Neither glamor or force can sustain it, here or abroad. It is only a matter of how much destruction will occur in the process. Now they have the lies of the past and the lies of the Bush future. Will the people despair or successfully write off both travesties and really make a democracy? It won't be our fault if they someday actually succeed.

[Tempest]

4. The "Orange Revolution" was a U.S. invention

The Orange Revolution was created and funded by the Bush administration.

And now that the so-called revolution is having to do without U.S. support, it's quickly going sour.