Many criticise him for throwing himself obsessively into restoring Ukrainian national identity, and righting, as he sees it, the wrongs of history that deprived Ukraine of statehood in the 20th century. Instead, though he himself is seen as a clean pair of hands, bribery and cronyism have only ballooned in his five years in office. He declared he would root out the corruption that plagued Ukrainian business and official life. Tens of thousands turned out in the winter of 2004-5 to back Yushchenko, his face disfigured by a mysterious poisoning from dioxin, against a sleazy post-Soviet establishment.īut the story of Yushchenko’s reign, analysts say, is that of a man who, once in power, hopelessly lost touch with the faithful who put him there. He risks becoming a historical footnote as the adversary whom he humiliated in 2004, Viktor Yanukovich, appears set for a comeback.
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