Viktor Yanukovych is sworn in

摘要

Relations between Russia and Ukraine, seriously strained over the past five years, are now expected to improve after Viktor Yanukovych was inaugurated as Ukrainian president February 25. Six years earlier massive protests over vote fraud got his first election victory tossed out. This time the pro-Russian leader promised to make Ukraine a European nation outside of any bloc. Yanukovych took the oath of office in the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament.