So little time has passed, yet so many bad decisions have been taken by President Viktor Yanukovych.

The bad decisions started off with canceling local elections that were set for May. Parliament then postponed new anti-corruption legislation from taking effect until next year, instead of next month. Then the president closed down the page on the presidential website dedicated to the Holodomor, a Stalin-induced famine in 1932-33 that claimed millions of Ukrainian lives.

Some of the Yanukovych appointees in government started coming out with their ideas of how the system will work now. State Security Service chief Valery Khoroshkovsky appealed to give his agency the right to tap as many phone numbers as they wanted without the need to turn to court every time. The idea outraged Vasyl Onopenko, the Supreme Court’s chief judge, who said too many permits for wiretapping are issued as it is, and too few cases end up in court.

Khoroshkovsky also announced that the SBU is to “limit” access and work on secret Soviet archives that revealed crimes committed by Moscow against Ukraine. He said “enough secrets” have been opened, and the SBU should concentrate on its main function, “guarding the secrets and laws that produce them.” This move outraged human rights groups and historians, who said the SBU seems more eager to guard another country’s old secrets, than in bringing the truth to Ukraine’s public.

The appointment of reputed “Ukrainophobe” Dmytro Tabachnyk as education minister triggered a chain of public outrage, and rising calls for his ouster. Mass collection of signatures and letters of appeal emerged, especially from Ukrainian-speaking western Ukraine. Millions of citizens are horrified by Tabachnyk’s multiple anti-Ukrainian and xenophobic public statements, as well as a reputation that makes even his Party of Regions colleagues refer to him as a “cheap clown.”

Most recently, parliament announced it would adopt legislation to keep Ukraine out of the NATO military alliance – a move that takes Russian interests into account more than Ukraine’s.

The public often gives newly-elected leaders 100 days to show their stuff. We think, however, the time has come to warn that Yanukovych’s direction is already straying far from the nation’s interests.