Russia and USA compete over the influence on post-Soviet space

With the upcoming Ukrainian parliamentary election on March 26, it will be interesting to see how the US and Russia jockey their horses. The current, US-backed president Viktor Yushchenko is lagging in the polls behind the challenger, Viktor Yanukovch who in 2004 actually won the initial election, but questions arose and after another two rounds of voting his victory was overturned. Yushchenko was poisoned during the election season.

The inability of both Mr. Yushchenko and his former ally Mrs. Tymoshenko to strengthen the success of the orange revolution was the most amazing event of the last year," says The Financial Times in its editorial published on January 16.

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