4 Apr 2009
Opposition launches major protest in Kiev
The New York times reported that between 8,000 and 20,000 demonstrators formed in Kiev’s Independence Square to call for early parlimentary and presidential elections.
This was the second protest called and assembled by the Party of Regions, the conservative party led by Viktor Yanukovich, which lost power to current President Viktor Yushchenko’s pro-Western coalition in the “Orange Revolution” five years ago.
Since then, Ukrainians complain, corruption has not decreased, and the new government has been far less effective than the one it replaced. Ukraine has also been particulalry hard hit by the global economic crisis and is now nearly totally dependent on IMF loans.
Yushchenko now enjoys an approval rating as low as three percent, and while he says he is unafraid of early elections, it is clear that if they were to be held today, either Yanukovich or Yulia Timoshenko would be the new leader of the country.
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June 4th, 2009 at 1:43 pmpermalink