Wilson - Ukraines Orange Revolution

Copyright 2005 Andrew Wilson

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Contents

Illustrations

Plates

Viktor Yanukovych Sunny Ukraine, Women for the Future campaign paper, November 2004.

Support from the Archangel Michael, Yanukovych campaign flyer (copy belonging to Sarah Whitmore).

Viktor Yanukovych, official campaign poster (copy belonging to Sarah Whitmore).

Yanukovych satirised on a Pora poster (author's copy).

I believe in Ukraine, Yushchenko campaign poster (author's copy).

Victor Yushchenko with his family (author's photo).

Don't Spare the Lash!, Yanukovych campaign paper.

The attack on Prime Minister Yanukovych, 24 September 2004 (Channel 5, Ukraine).

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Mona Yuliia, calendar card produced for Tymoshenko's supporters.

Yes! (Tak!), poster depicting Yushchenko as an American puppet (copy belonging to Oleksii Solohubenko).

Yes! For Bushchenko, poster depicting Yushchenko as a puppet of the Bush administration (copy belonging to Oleksii Solohubenko).

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Yanuchary, East Ukrainian Janissaries (Chysta hazeta).

Poster ridiculing Yanukovych's supporters (Chysta hazeta).

Poster after Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People (1830) (author's copy).

The militia face a Yushchenko flag.

Tymoshenko presenting the militia with a flower.

Viktor Yushchenko, before and after the poisoning (author's photos).

The crowd on the Maidan at the height of the protest (Andrei Kolesnikov, Pervyi Ukrainskii (Kiev: Vagrius, 2005)).

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Opinion poll ratings of Yushchenko and Yanukovych in 2004, in an assumed second round

Maps

Modern Ukraine

Change in voter turnout compared to 31 October

Kiev, showing the main events of the Orange Revolution

Tables

The results of the 2002 elections the proportional vote

Progress of the first round count

Turnout in Ukrainian elections, 19982004

Campaign spending in the 2004 election, millions of US dollars

The changing balance of power in parliament, 20045

(Source: regular updates from www.rada.gov.ua/depkor.htm)

1 An optimistic and very Soviet view of what Ukraine would look like under Viktor Yanukovych.

2 Another type of endorsement: support from the Archangel Michael, With love, Viktor Yanukovych.

3 Viktor Yanukovych official campaign poster.

4 Yanukovych satirised by Pora. Kuchmizm tse Ya (Kuchmism is Me). In Ukrainian and Russian Ya (), Me, also stands for Yanukovych. His campaign colours adorn the jailbird's cap.

5 Viktor Yushchenko: I Believe in Ukraine.

6 Yushchenko, his family, and family values.

7 Don't Spare the Lash! The message being that Yanukovych provides strong leadership, and Ukraine should not change mid-course.

8 The Yanukovych attack. The prime minister is hit either by several large objects or by a single egg.

9 Yuliia Tymoshenko, in a studiously glamorous pose.

10 Mona Yuliia.

11 Yes! (Tak!). Yushchenko shown as an American puppet, with his slogan Our President! changed to Your President!

12 Yes! For Bushchenko. Yushchenko is at the top and bottom, in between are Bush's eyes.

13 More black PR. On the left, Yushchenko's campaign logo (see plate 5) is inverted to give him donkey's ears. On the right, Bush shouts his support, We are for Our Ukraine!

14 And more. On the left, Ukraine of three sorts: West Ukraine is depicted as the first class and Central Ukraine the second, relegating South-East Ukraine to third class. On the right, a scare story about energy prices.

15 Yanuchary, East Ukrainian Janissaries.

16 A less than flattering view of Yanukovych () supporters.

17 Storming the barricades. Yuliia as Marianne, after Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People (1830), flanked by Yushchenko on the right and the Socialist Yurii Lutsenko on the left.