The Orange Revolution at the Crossroads.

From: Demokratizatsiya | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Kuzio, Taras | Copyright information

Abstract: The November-December 2004 Orange Revolution led to the election of Viktor Yushchenko as Ukraine's third president. Yushchenko's presidency has been associated with a number of important democratic gains, such as the holding of free and fair elections, a free media, an active civil society, the dissociation of oligarchs from a corrupt relationship with the authorities, and a more robust commitment to Euro-Atlantic integration. The Orange Revolution went into crisis in Sep...

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