By that point, Ukraine’s springtime of freedom had already deteriorated into a very visible development standstill, owing to a mixture of incompetence and corruption that cried out for change. Regardless of which of the remaining candidates will be elected in the upcoming runoff – the incumbent Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or Viktor Yanukovych – the Orange Revolution will have come to an end.
此前的形势是，乌克兰的自由之春已经退化成一种明显的发展停滞，政府的无能和腐败引发了变革的呼声。无论其余的候选人谁最终当选，是现任总理季莫申科抑或亚努科维奇，橙色革命的历史一页肯定会就此翻过。