Mr Yushchenko has even managed to sabotage the disbursement of a badly needed IMF loan.
Indeed, destroying Ms Tymoshenko, his erstwhile orange colleague, seems now to be Mr Yushchenko's only goal.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said his country should be able to start the NATO membership process.
It was set up on Mr Yushchenko's watch and Ms Tymoshenko wants to scrap it.
In retaliation Ms Tymoshenko tried to checkmate Mr Yushchenko by teaming up with Mr Yanukovich instead.
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Tymoshenko was a face of Ukraine's pro-democracy Orange Revolution alongside Mr Yanukovych's long-time rival Viktor Yushchenko.
And Mr Yushchenko should not be blamed for some of Ukraine's most intractable problems.
Hostility from vested interests would matter less if Mr Yushchenko had a political base.
Reformists, and Ukraine's friends in the West, are hoping that Mr Yushchenko will eventually become president.
After a meeting with parliamentary leaders, Mr Yushchenko riskily, but successfully, submitted his candidate to another ballot.
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.
Yushchenko, who you mentioned, was poisoned, apparently, during his campaign for office a couple of years ago.
Former president and one-time ally Viktor Yushchenko and others have testified against her in the court case.
The Yushchenko camp alleges that he exploited this position to warp the most recent round of voting.
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Compromises in the constitutional reform should pacify some of the more radical elements within the Yushchenko camp.
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Mr Yushchenko claimed that Ms Tymoshenko had formed a de facto rival coalition with Mr Yanukovich's party.
Mr Yushchenko's ongoing rivalry with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko - a former ally - is another factor.
According to the official election result, Mr Yanukovych won with 49.46% of the vote against Mr Yushchenko's 46.61%.
But Mr Yushchenko has accused him of poaching parliamentary deputies from other blocs, in violation of the constitution.
Yanukovich is against Yushchenko's desire for Ukraine to join NATO, and he wants to improve relations with Russia.
Ukraine's relations with Russia had become so strained under Mr Yushchenko that improvement was both inevitable and desirable.
Addressing them, Mr Yushchenko said the Severodonetsk meeting "could take a decision which would threaten the country's territorial integrity".
They strongly support the prime minister, Viktor Yushchenko, whose government is under heavy attack from tycoons around the president.
Yushchenko hasn't specifically mentioned Zaporizhstal, but some private investors say that it may be only a matter of time.
Whereas most of Mr Yushchenko's former allies have agreed to back Ms Tymoshenko, he is implicitly backing Mr Yanukovich.
But this time, in insulting Mr Yushchenko, it is kicking someone who it thinks is certain to lose anyway.
But Mr Medvedev was not interested in what Mr Yushchenko had to say.
In contrast, Mr Yushchenko's influence has been mostly disruptive despite his avowed liberalism.
Mr Yushchenko's presidential term expires in January and the campaign is under way.
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