Two years after the Orange revolt, Yushchenko (a politician who seems out of his depth) has now accepted the Kremlin placeman Viktor Yanukovych, the foe he had vanquished in 2004, as his new prime minister. Nonetheless, the Orange movement – now led by Yushchenko’s former partner and prime minister, Tymoshenko – has not fully lost its way, and still aims to preserve Ukraine as a truly independent and free country.