Two cheers for democracy

Published January 20, 2010

Yushchenko, Tymoshenko and Yanukovych were once called the "eternal triangle" of Ukrainian politics, and it was not a compliment. But eternity is not what it used to be: one side of the triangle has to disappear.

Five years ago, when the "Orange Revo-lution" in Ukraine turned Viktor Yushchenko (now president) and Yulia Tymoshenko (now prime minister) into democratic heroes, the villain of the piece...