The most celebrated populist
revolution in recent history, the world acclaimed Orange Revolution has turned to sour grapes
of wrath as President Viktor Yushchenko dismissed the Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and his cabinet earlier today. Bringing an end to the so called Orange
Revolution that took place last winter from November 22, 2004, with massive protests in cities across Ukraine with the major one in Kiev's Independent Square that attracted an estimated 500,000 who on November 23, 2004 peacefully marched in front of the headquarters of the Parliament of Ukraine, many wearing orange or carrying orange flags, the color of Yushchenko's campaign coalition. So, the results of the original run-off were annulled.
Then, the Supreme Court of Ukraine ordered a second run-off election that was held on the 26th of December, 2004. Under intense international scrutiny, the official results of the second run-off proved to be virtually problem-free, legally valid and clearly in Yuschenko's favor. He was declared the official winner with his inauguration on the 23rd of January 2005 in Kiev. But open rivalry between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko over their different political interests have caused disputation. These misuderstandings have hampered the progress of the new
government. The resignation of Petro Poroshenko the head of security and defense council was followed by the resignation of Oleksandr Turchinov, the Head of State Security Service who is a close ally of Yulia Tymoshenko and the Vice Minister Mykola Tomenko also resigned last Thursday on September 1st. He accused Poroshenko of corruption. "I have realized that some people steal and others resign," said Tomenko. "I don't want to bear common responsibility for people who have created a corrupt system." Tomenko told a news conference in Kiev as he left his post that was in charge of humanitarian affairs. Then, just last Saturday, Yushchenko’s chief-of-staff, Oleksandr Zinchenko, resigned and also leveled charges of corruption against high-level officials, including Poroshenko
Yushchenko has appointed lawmaker Yuriy Yekhanurov, a former economics minister who now heads a parliamentary committee on industrial issues, as acting prime minister.
This is bad news indeed that the much-celebrated government of President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine has collapsed like a pack of cards within only ten months. And I am sure that President Putin of Russia would be smiling and dancing in the Kremlin now toasting to his vote of No Confidence on Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko. Because he never supported their Orange Revolution from the onset. He had supported the previous government of President Kuchma and his Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych whom Putin wanted to win the massively rigged Presidential Election that was later annulled.
The United States of America and the European Union would be disappointed. Because, they have spent so much on the Orange Revolution and wanted the new government in Ukraine to succeed. Now wither goes Ukraine?