Oksana Yakhno

On Feb. 27, 2009, President Viktor Yushchenko urged politicians to announce a moratorium on political rows and forget about the presidential elections until July 1. But the president’s appeal came clearly too late. The election campaign already started, without his assistance. Viktor Yanukovych,...

There is a glimmer of a hope that Ukraine’s MPs will finally figure out the crisis and the elections on Tuesday. A parliamentary task force is supposed to draw up a single bill on minimizing the impact of the global financial crisis on the Ukrainian economy instead of the previously proposed six...