Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said his country should be able to start the NATO membership process.
Tymoshenko was a face of Ukraine's pro-democracy Orange Revolution alongside Mr Yanukovych's long-time rival Viktor Yushchenko.
The Ukrainian President, Viktor Yushchenko, has said that a co-ordination council will be set up with Poland.
The third layer is the political rivalry within Ukraine between Ms Tymoshenko and the president, Viktor Yushchenko.
Former president and one-time ally Viktor Yushchenko and others have testified against her in the court case.
They strongly support the prime minister, Viktor Yushchenko, whose government is under heavy attack from tycoons around the president.
The "dream ticket" alliance of Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko seems resolutely dead.
In January, Kuchma was replaced by President Viktor Yushchenko , who is geared to smash the corruption of his predecessors.
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Ms Tymoshenko's main rivalry is not with Mr Yanukovich at all, but rather with her erstwhile orange-revolution ally, President Viktor Yushchenko.
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In that Viktor Yushchenko joins a small but revered group that includes British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai.
There has been bitter acrimony between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko who've accused each other of treason and corruption.
The governing coalition has collapsed after a row between Viktor Yushchenko, the president, and his former ally, Yulia Tymoshenko, the prime minister.
But Mr Milinkevic could not claim that he had won the vote, as Viktor Yushchenko, now Ukraine's president, did in last winter's stand-off in Kiev.
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And it was Mr Medvedev who sent an aggressive and insulting letter to Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine's president, blaming him for supplying arms to Georgia and falsifying history.
Ms Tymoshenko said Russia could not come to terms with the fact that a new President, Viktor Yushchenko, and a new government had come to power in Ukraine.
President Viktor Yushchenko has called the privatization a theft and pledged to return the vast mill to Kiev's control, so it could be sold again in a transparent offer.
The motion dismissing the government was strongly backed, after all, by "Regions of Ukraine", led by Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian-backed opponent of Viktor Yushchenko in the 2004 presidential election.
After the resignation of key officials amid a corruption scandal, Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko, dismissed the government of Yulia Timoshenko and asked Yuri Yekhanurov, a regional governor, to become prime minster.
The decent central-bank governor, Viktor Yushchenko, is backing him.
They were pleasantly surprised by the scale and the relative ease of Viktor Yushchenko's triumph over a Russian-backed challenger, and by what it revealed about the weakness or incompetence of Russia under Mr Putin.
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Mr Yanukovich and Viktor Yushchenko who defeated him in the 2004 presidential election, but accepted him as prime minister earlier this month say that their unlikely cohabitation can heal the political rupture between eastern and western Ukraine.
By temporarily cutting off natural gas supplies to the western-leaning government of Viktor Yushchenko and ignoring standing contractual obligations, Moscow gave an early glimpse of how its new energy-based foreign policy could be used to persuade and punish.
It is a bitter reversal for Tymoshenko since the Orange Revolution days, when she and her ally Viktor Yushchenko packed the streets of Ukraine in protest at a rigged election that went in favour of the pro-Russian Mr Yanukovych.
The vast majority of his 48% of the vote comes from the Russian-speaking east of Ukraine, as it did five years ago when he also won over 40% but lost to Viktor Yushchenko, the hero of the orange revolution.
In addition Ukraine's political system has been paralysed by infighting and bickering, with once allies President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko -- known as the "Gas Princess" due to her previous business dealings -- falling out.
There's plenty stirring in Eastern Europe's steel markets: Yesterday a Ukrainian court seized control of billionaire Viktor Pinchuk's Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant and froze any shareholder activity, at the behest of that country's president, Viktor Yushchenko, (see "Ukrainian Billionaire Stripped Of Another Asset").
The recent ripple of protest in Poland when Ukraine's outgoing president, Viktor Yushchenko, made the wartime nationalist leader Stepan Bandera a "Hero of Ukraine" was interesting not because it exemplified the two countries' rows over history, but because it came after years in which they had sorted out so much.
Yushchenko defeated Viktor Yanukovich, the man Putin had publicly backed.
But it was her decision to join, temporarily, with the pro-Russian Party of the Regions, led by Viktor Yanukovich, so as to push through legislation diluting presidential authority, that incensed Mr Yushchenko, who promptly pulled his own Our Ukraine party out of its coalition with the Tymoshenko block.
But now pro-Western Viktor Yanukovich is back as prime minister and is locked in a bitter power struggle with President Yushchenko.
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