Ukraine elections: A glance at personalities- associated press

VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH: The Soviet industrial manager ran for president in 2004 with the backing of the Kremlin and then-Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. He was initially declared the winner but opposition forces charged the vote was rigged. Hundreds of thousands of protesters blockaded the capital of Kiev in the Orange protests and the courts threw out the election…..

YULIA TYMOSHENKO: The current prime minister was nicknamed Ukraine’s “gas princess” in the late 1990s for being the head of a leading natural gas importer. She served as deputy prime minister for fuel and energy under President Kuchma, but the two fell out. In 2001 she was jailed briefly on suspicion of smuggling gas but the case never went to trial. She then forged an opposition alliance with Yushchenko. Her peasant hair style, a blond braid, became an icon of the 2004 Orange protests…..

VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO: The patrician former central banker became prime minister in 1999 and implemented important reforms, but was ousted two years later by President Kuchma over policy disputes. Yushchenko and Tymoshenko then formed an opposition movement and he ran for president in 2004. During that campaign, Yushchenko was poisoned, shunned by the major media and defeated by a rigged ballot. But he helped rally hundreds of thousands to the streets and won the court-ordered revote against Yanukovych in December 2004, becoming an international symbol of resistance….

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