Fresh face wins reputation as Kiev’s Obama

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Series Details 7.4.09
Publication Date 07/04/2009
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Article reports that, squeezed by recession and fed up with poisonous politics, Ukrainian voters are desperate for a leader to rekindle the lost optimism of the Orange Revolution.
If recent polls in 2009 are right, an increasing number of them see 34-year-old Arseniy Yatseniuk as an alternative to three leaders whose mud-slinging power struggle has dominated Kiev’s politics since 2004.

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Website: Democratic Initiatives Foundation http://dif.org.ua/language/en
Who is who in Ukraine: Arseniy Yatseniuk http://ukrfaces.blogspot.com/2008/10/arseniy-yatseniuk-official-biography.html

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