Is Yanukovych's Model of Governance Drifting Toward Pussian Shores?
Journal: Electronic Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Institutional Repository (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
Year: 2010

In the second round of Ukraine's February 2010 presidential election, Viktor Yanukovych defeated Yulia Tymoshenko by a slim margin (49 to 45.5 percent).As Yanukovych's Party of Regions (PoR) did not have a parliamentary majority, most observers believed that the political situation in Ukraine would become a more or less balanced one (as the 2004 constitutional reform mandated that the president share power with the prime minister).If the PoR was unable to form a new parliamentary coalition with