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Ukraine is holding presidential elections on Jan. 17, for the first time since the popular uprising in 2004 that overturned a fraudulent vote. But what has become of the Orange Revolution, now that its leaders have fallen from grace and the population is disillusioned?
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Ukraine is holding presidential elections on Jan. 17, for the first time since the popular uprising in 2004 that overturned a fraudulent vote. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is among the candidates running for president.

Foto: ALEXANDER PROKOPENKO/ AFP
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Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych is the frontrunner in the presidential race.

Foto: Efrem Lukatsky/ AP
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Supporters of Victor Yushchenko during a rally in Kiev in 2004: Five years later, many are disappointed in the legacy of the Orange Revolution.

Foto: GALI TIBBON/ AFP
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Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine's most renowned writers. "We are back in the mid-1990s, and we will have a new Kuchma," he says. "It's no surprise that the West doesn't trust us."

Foto: Christian Neef / DER SPIEGEL
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Downtown Kiev: Foreign direct investment grew fivefold after the Orange Revolution, but now more than $30 billion of that foreign capital has been pulled out of the country again.

Foto: Christian Neef / DER SPIEGEL
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