Ukrainian Elections: More a Victory or a Defeat?
Five years after the whole European Union emotionally followed the crowds protesting in the streets of Ukraine after a presidential that finished offering Ms. Yulia Timoshenko the throne of the Orange revolution, history repeats himself without anyone being too surprised.The narrow victory that the Central Electoral Committee President Mr. Vladimir Shapoval awarded to the filo-Russian leader Viktor Yanukovich and which might lead to an unusual co-habitation between him and the pro-European Timoshenko, is the sign that something is broken that the apparently genuine enthusiasm of the blonde and active Prime Minister failed to become something more than simple words.Right after the unsaid promises that followed the victory of the Orange revolution, Ukraine started to heavily suffer for the worsening of its economy witnessing an increase of a corruption that Ms. Timoshenko promised to make nothing more than a dark shadow of the past.And once her people got tired of seeing fingers pointed against Russia and its ...