Viktor Yushchenko, the 2004 Orange Revolution hero once admired around the world as a champion of democracy and reform, is laying controversial and divisive political landmines for his enemies after his humiliating election defeat.
Ukraine’s outgoing president has travelled to western Ukraine, the heartland of Ukrainian nationalism and the ancestral homeland of most of Canada’s 1.2 million diaspora, to tell countrymen they shouldn’t vote for either of the two candidates to replace him in the run-off vote Sunday. The two contenders are former Orange Revolution partner, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and Opposition Leader Viktor Yanukovych.
