Settling scores with the Orange Revolution

The Ukrainian presidential elections could turn the page on the Orange Revolution, writes the daily Die Presse: "According to the most recent 'Freedom House' index, Ukraine is the only post-Soviet country ... that is truly 'free'. ... However a potentially rich but in fact relatively poor country cannot live on democracy alone. In the past five years Yushchenko and his Orange camp have failed to go about restructuring the country. They haven't modernised the infrastructure, reformed the health and pension systems, put energy supply on a sound footing, created attractive conditions for foreign investors, fought corruption, created functional political structures using constitutionally approved means, and so on. Instead the president and the prime minister never stopped bickering, the parliament's work has been blocked and the members of parliament haven't stopped slapping each other in the face."

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