Troubled Year Ahead

The combination of parliamentary elections, constitutional change, and soaring gas prices will ensure another turbulent year in Ukrainian politics in 2006, following a year which saw the leaders of the Orange Revolution split acrimoniously a matter of months after coming to power. At best, the state of recurrent crisis that has characterised Ukrainian politics since 2004 will prove to have been a troubled period on the country's rocky road to Western-style democracy and market economy. At worst, there is a risk of breakdown in relations between the legislature and executive, protracted constitutional gridlock, and a return to Russia's sphere of

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