From outside, Ukraine must look like a country of paradoxes. In 2004, the presidential elections became a milestone in Ukraine's post-Soviet development, leading to democratic change through the Orange Revolution; five years later, the antihero of the revolution, Viktor Yanukovych, will soon be inaugurated as the fourth president of Ukraine. His rival, the princess of the Orange Revolution, Yulia Tymoshenko, the current prime minister, has little choice but to admit the election defeat.
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