And the Orange Revolution leaders Viktor Yushenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, having split politically, managed to split more than 50% of the vote.

Yushenko’s call for Ukrainians to vote “against all” provided Yanukovich’s margin of victory.

The difficulty in Ukraine is that the Orange Revolution didn’t bring anything tangible to improve people’s lives. It’s doubtful Yanukovich will do any better, but he’ll be more popular with Moscow and that counts for something.

Ukraine remains very dependent on Russia for energy resources, and there’s a steep divide between western Ukrainians and Russian speaking Ukrainians.

Gorilla says: “Freedom ain’t easy, sustainability is harder!”