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Ukrainians Protest Yushchenko's Call for Elections

By Gregory Feifer

Published April 5, 2007 at 1:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

Thousands of people are back on the streets of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Two years after the country's Orange Revolution, Ukraine is once again in political crisis.

This time, opponents of the pro-Western President Victor Yushchenko are demonstrating — defying his call for new elections.

Yushchenko has announced that he is dissolving the Parliament, but legislators and the prime minister have refused to accept the order, calling it unconstitutional.

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Gregory Feifer

Gregory Feifer reports for NPR from Moscow, covering Russia's resurgence under President Vladimir Putin and the country's transition to the post-Putin era. He files from other former Soviet republics and across Russia, where he's observed the effects of the country's vast new oil wealth on an increasingly nationalistic society as well as Moscow's rekindling of a new Cold War-style opposition to the West.

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