Ukraine's odd couple – chapter two

By Iryna Chupryna - 14.02.2008 / 00:00 CET

The year began with Orange Revolution pasionaria Yulia Tymoshenko triumphantly restored as prime minister. She is still popularly referred to by her first name – or diminutives, ‘Yulichka' or ‘Yulochka' – just as she was less than four years ago, when she campaigned side by side with and at some times alone, on behalf of the poisoned Viktor Yushchenko.

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