Tweet
Ukraine prepared Saturday for parliamentary polls in which WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko has emerged as an unlikely challenger to the ruling party in place of the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.
The ex-Soviet strategic nation of 46 million nestled between the EU and Russia is holding the first election Sunday since Tymoshenko lost to President Viktor Yanukovych in a bitterly-fought contest in 2010.
The firebrand 2004 Orange Revolution leader was jailed less than two years later on abuse of power charges brought by Yanukovych's Regions Party that both Tymoshenko and Western nations saw as vendetta on the part of the president.
[Click Here To Read More]
The ex-Soviet strategic nation of 46 million nestled between the EU and Russia is holding the first election Sunday since Tymoshenko lost to President Viktor Yanukovych in a bitterly-fought contest in 2010.
The firebrand 2004 Orange Revolution leader was jailed less than two years later on abuse of power charges brought by Yanukovych's Regions Party that both Tymoshenko and Western nations saw as vendetta on the part of the president.
[Click Here To Read More]
Comment