Bloodless orange

摘要

Five years ago in Kiev, as the snow fell, rock bands played and hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated for free elections and against corruption, Ukraine seemed poised to be transformed from a post-Soviet oligarchy into a modern democracy. Yet on February 7th the disgraced loser of 2004-05, Viktor Yanukovich (pictured right), won the presidency at the second attempt-even if Yulia Tymoshenko, his opponent (pictured left), is reluctant to concede (see page 39).