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Financial Times: Oranges and lemons in Ukraine
Victor Yanukovych is back and history seems to have gone into reverse The FT

Financial Times: Oranges and lemons in Ukraine

Feb 9, 2010 at 00:01
Financial Times writes:At first sight, the prospect of a Viktor Yanukovich presidency in Ukraine looks like part of a depressing pattern for democracy around the world. Mr Yanukovich was the “bad guy” during Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004. He was backed by Russia and accused of electoral fraud. The western world cheered when he was swept aside in favour of the heroic, pro-western Viktor Yushchenko.

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