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Three Years After: Theoretical Reflections on Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Ist Teil von
Harvard international review, 2008-12, Vol.29 (4), p.16-19
Ort / Verlag
Cambridge: Harvard International Relations Council, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
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In late 2004, Ukraine underwent the "Orange Revolution" -- several weeks of peaceful mass demonstrations that reversed a fraudulent election, catapulted a democrat to the presidency, and promised to transform the country into a modern European state. Just a few months later, the Orange coalition, led by President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, was already at loggerheads, and by late 2005 it had split. Continued bickering among the Orange democrats enabled the man who had been humiliated by the revolution, Viktor Yanukovych, to stage a spectacular comeback in mid-2006. After Yushchenko dissolved parliament and called new elections in 2007, however, a reconstituted and exceedingly shaky Orange coalition managed to win. Yushchenko the moderate reformer, Tymoshenko the radical, and Yanukovych the conservative nicely symbolize the strong and weak points of Ukraine's democracy. Their political agendas represent the full range of alternatives found in most democracies and presuppose a grudging willingness to coexist peacefully; but their relations are tense, unfriendly, and generally mistrustful.