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.
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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And Mr Yushchenko should not be blamed for some of Ukraine's most intractable problems.
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.
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.
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 Mr Medvedev was not interested in what Mr Yushchenko had to say.
Mr Yushchenko's presidential term expires in January and the campaign is under way.
The "dream ticket" alliance of Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko seems resolutely dead.
Mr Yushchenko presented himself as a pro-western, free-market reformer who would clean up corruption and enforce the rule of law.
Another hope is that Mr Yanukovich will mend the rift between Kiev and Moscow opened by Mr Yushchenko's pro-western orientation.
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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Yet it now seems certain that Victor Yushchenko, the opposition candidate, will be declared the winner of Ukraine's 2004 presidential election.
Ms Tymoshenko herself said earlier this week that there was no question of her forming an alliance with Mr Yushchenko's enemies.
The Segodnya tabloid, believed to be linked to a business group opposed to Mr Yushchenko, said two very important questions remained unanswered.
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.
Few leading Ukrainian politicians publicly rebutted Mr Medvedev's insult to Mr Yushchenko.
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