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Source: BBC World "HARDtalk"

Roundup

5-3-06

Ukraine's Orange Revolution [23min]

The bright glow from Ukraine's Orange Revolution is rapidly fizzling out. The leaders of that popular revolt are squabbling over power, and the public, judging from the March election result, is disenchanted. Stephen Sackur talks to the chief of staff to the Ukrainian president, Oleh Rybachuk, about what went wrong with the Orange Revolution.

Read entire article at BBC World "HARDtalk"