|skos:definition - en||Updated: June 23, 2009
Viktor A. Yushchenko is the president of Ukraine. He took office in 2005 as a hero of the country's so-called Orange Revolution, when massive crowds peacefully forced out a pro-Russian regime after a disputed election. But his popularity has plunged into the single digits in the face of years of bickering with his former ally, Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko, and the country's battering by the global economic crisis.
Mr. Yushchenko, who achieved worldwide attention in 2004 when his face was scarred in an attempted poisoning that remains unsolved, is given little chance of winning re-election.|
|skos:prefLabel - en||Yushchenko, Viktor|