Yanukovych sworn in as President and hits out at Orange revolution

Tony Halpin, Moscow & , : {}

Viktor Yanukovych was sworn in as Ukraines new President yesterday and rught away lashed out at the bequest of the pro-Western Orange revolution.

He warned that Ukraine was in jeopardy by gigantic debts, poverty, a collapsing economy, crime as Yuliya Tymoshenko, his degraded opposition in the presidential election, left out his coronation and taunted his disaster to pouch her as Prime Minister.

The pro-Russian leaders Party of Regions is looking to set up a new infancy bloc in council to reject Mrs Tymoshenko, but weeks of negotiations with alternative parties have unsuccessful to furnish a breakthrough.

Deputy leader, Anna German, insisted that Mrs Tymoshenko would be discharged by spring, adding that it was non-professional for President Yanukovych to work with her as premier.

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But Mrs Tymoshenko appears dynamic to dig in her heels and quarrel for energy after refusing to recognize Mr Yanukovychs victory.

Wearing a burning red dress, she told a assembly of ministers on Wednesday: The Party of Regions does not have the votes to lift out this dismissal.

Mr Yanukovychs coronation caps a conspicuous quip for the man whose fake choosing as President was overturned by the 2004 Orange revolution, when mass open protests opposite list paraphernalia propelled Viktor Yushchenko and Mrs Tymoshenko, his former ally, to power.

Mr Yanukovych, 59, took the promise of bureau as Ukraines fourth boss given autonomy at a rite in council that was boycotted by Mrs Tymoshenko and majority of her party.

With his right palm on a 16th Century Ukrainian Bible and a duplicate of the Constitution, he declared: I vouch to urge by my actions the government and autonomy of Ukraine and the rights and freedoms of the citizens.

He has affianced to revive comfortable family with Russia, that all but collapsed underneath Mr Yushchenko, the effusive President, as he courted the West and sought to stick on Nato.

Mr Yanukovych used his coronation debate to embankment the idea of Nato membership, dogmatic Ukraine a non-aligned state.

But he additionally sought to encourage the United States and the European Union that Ukraine would not tumble behind in to Moscows orbit, observant that he longed for next to and jointly fitting family with Russia and the West.

Mr Yanukovych is due to revisit Brussels on Monday in his initial unfamiliar outing as President prior to drifting to Moscow.

In a rite that murderous Ukrainian nationalists, however, Mr Yanukovych perceived a good fortune prior to his coronation from the personality of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, at Kievs Pechersk Lavra monastery, one of the holiest sites of Orthodox Christianity.

Mr Yanukovych kick Mrs Tymoshenko by 3.5 commission points in the choosing on Feb 7, but is the initial boss of Ukraine to take bureau but winning at slightest 50 per cent of the vote.

She has indicted him of large-scale list rascal in a repeat of the allegations that triggered the Orange uprising.

Mrs Tymoshenko had in jeopardy a second Orange series if the list was injured by fraud. But general observers praised the control of the choosing and she withdrew a authorised plea at the week end whilst still refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the result.

The new presidents initial plea will be to pass a bill that wins the subsidy of the International Monetary Fund, that dangling the last $5 billion (3.2 billion) tranche of a $16.4 billion bail-out after the Government unsuccessful to encounter boundary on spending.

Ukraines economy shrank fifteen per cent in the tellurian monetary predicament as the industries slumped and millions were left jobless.

Raised in harsh misery by his parents mother after being orphaned at the age of two, Mr Yanukovych was locked up twice in his girl for attack and spoliation during the Soviet era.

The philosophy were after expunged but Mrs Tymoshenkos supporters regularly argued during the sour choosing debate that his rapist past done him non-professional to be president.

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