Ukraine’s Orange Revolution: The Opposition’s Road to Success

Issue Date April 2005
Volume 16
Issue 2
Page Numbers 117-30
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Ukraine’s opposition had been trying to oust President Leonid Kuchma’s semi-authoritarian regime since its alleged involvement in the murder of journalist Georgi Gongadze in 2000. What brought success in 2004?

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