by RAY FLEMING
SO Ukraine's Orange Revolution, which ended the authoritarian rule of a pro-Russian government only last November after weeks of stirring street protests, has confirmed the old political rule that those who unite to bring about change often find it dificult to stay together to effect that change. On Thursday President Viktor Yushchenko, his face still pockmarked from an attempt to poison him, dismissed his glamorous and populist prime minister Julia Tymoschenko who often stood beside him on the platform in the centre of Kiev, the braids of her blonde hair glistening in the snow. Her dismissal brought into the open a conflict between president and prime minister that had been simmering for months and that spanned almost all the difficult issues that the new democratic and western-inclined Ukraine faces. An opinion poll taken in August found that the percentage of Ukrainians who thought that things were better under Yushchenko than they had been under the former regime had dropped to 37 per cent from 52 per cent in April.
ORANGE CAUTION
10/09/2005 00:00
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