The return of Yulia Tymoshenko to power has not been greeted with the kind of international fanfare accorded the Orange Revolution three years earlier, but nevertheless there is reason to believe that an equally great political watershed may have been reached More

Huge queues of heavy goods lorries have stretched along both sides of the Ukrainian-Polish border for the past two weeks as a Polish customs workers’ labour dispute threatens to throttle Ukraine’s lucrative transit trade More

Yulia Tymoshenko’s late January visit to Brussels, where she met with high-level officials from the European Union, the European Parliament and NATO, has changed international perceptions of Ukraine. It is now Tymoshenko – not Viktor Yushchenko – who is seen by Brussels and Washington as carrying the torch and the hopes of the Orange Revolution More

The battle for the soul of Ukraine is currently being fought on many fronts, from the political arena to the country’s classrooms and universities. As passions have flared in the past few years the debate has generated a number of new monuments to the most controversial figures in Ukrainian history – and the trend looks set to continue in 2008 More