The Ukrainian middle class, tired of muddling through, trusted Mr Yushchenko to smash that system.
This year marks the 300th anniversary of a battle fought in hilly terrain near the Ukrainian town of Poltava.
When Nikolai Azarov, Ukraine’s current prime minister, refused to accede to her demand that he speak Ukrainian rather than Russian, she asked for an interpreter.
Thailand has received the first of 96 Ukrainian armored personnel carriers ($125 million), with the first of six Swedish fighter jets and two other aircraft ($574 million) arriving in early 2011.
The Ukrainian ship freed last week had been held for nearly seven weeks.
An earlier protocol, which Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko signed on Saturday, fell apart over Russian objections to remarks she added to the agreement.
Later, Foreign Minister Yang and other distinguished guests cut ribbon for the charity sale and the Ukrainian embassy in China and China Disabled Art Troupe performed songs and dances respectively.
Yet on vision, rhetorically at least, there is little difference between Ukrainian politicians.
Over the next decades the Ukrainian republic not only overcame the pre-war levels of industry and productions but was the spearhead of the Soviet power.
The President's stay in Ukraine lasted less than 24 hours, enough time to signal his support for the NATO bid and Ukrainian democracy before heading off to Bucharest and the alliance summit.
On Wednesday came a fourth attack, a Ukrainian man with leg wounds believed to have been caused by a shark.
Sugule Ali, Somali pirate spokesman, explaining why the group hijacked a Ukrainian freighter.
They cried and they danced—and the world was gripped by the sight of a sleepy Ukrainian people waking up to defend their freedom.
Either the Russian supplies go through, making Mr Putin look the peacemaker, or they are blocked by Ukrainian forces, allowing Russia to appear the nobler party.
Last year a hijacked Ukrainian ship with a cargo of tanks bound for South Sudan was also carrying 10,000 AKs and ammunition, according to the Small Arms Survey, a Swiss-based pressure group.
A Ukrainian officer controls access to villages near Chornobyl after an explosion ripped apart the nuclear power plant in 1986.
But in Ismail, one of the most Southern Ukrainian towns, everything is like years ago.
