Janoekovytsj als president: heeft een 'poetinisering' van Oekraïne kans van slagen?
Journal: UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
Year: 2011

Early 2010 in Ukraine the rule of the Orange team came to an end, when Victor Yanukovych, Victor Yushchenko’s great rival during the Orange Revolution of 2004, was elected President. After Yushchenko’s pro-Western foreign policy, one of his first steps was an agreement with Russia allowing this country to maintain its Black Sea fleet in the Ukrainian port of Sebastopol until at least 2042, in exchange for a 30 percent gas price discount for Ukraine. The Ukrainian ambition to join NATO was also a