Who Was The Leader Of Orange Revolution?

President Viktor Yushchenko led Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution and ushered him into power. Klitschko unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Kiev twice, and in 2010 he became the leader of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR; its acronym in Ukrainian spelled “punch”) political party.

There was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter intimidation and electoral fraud.

Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, was the focal point of the movement’s campaign of civil resistance, with thousands of protesters demonstrating daily.

Nationwide, the revolution was highlighted by a series of acts of civil disobedience, sit-ins, and general strikes organized by the opposition movement.

Yanukovych served as the governor of Donetsk Oblast, a province in eastern Ukraine, from 1997 to 2002. He was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 21 November 2002 to 7 December 2004 and from 28 December 2004 to 5 January 2005, under President Leonid Kuchma.