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The Orange Revolution (Ukrainian: Помаранчева революція, romanized: Pomarancheva revoliutsiia) was a series of protests that led to political upheaval in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005.
Yushchenko urged his supporters to engage in a series of nationwide general strikes – an "Orange Revolution", after his campaign color – with the intent of crippling the government and forcing Yanukovych to concede defeat. Hundreds of tents were erected in Kyiv's Independence Square and the nearby Lenin Library was taken over to serve as ...
The subsequent events led to a political crisis in Ukraine, with widespread peaceful protesters, dubbed the "Orange Revolution", calling for a re-run of the second-round election. On 3 December the Supreme Court of Ukraine declared the results of the 21 November 2004 run-off ballot invalid and ordered a repeat of the second-round ballot.
Yushchenko with fellow opposition leader Oleksandr Moroz during the Orange Revolution, 2004 Yushchenko's approval rating stood at 7% as of October 2009 according to FOM-Ukraine polling results. [ 4 ] In 2002, Yushchenko became the leader of the Our Ukraine ( Nasha Ukrayina ) political coalition , which received a plurality of seats in the year ...
These protests became known as the Orange Revolution. On 23 November 2004, Tymoshenko led the participants of the protest to the President's Administration. On Bankova Street, special riot police prevented the procession from going any further, so people lifted Tymoshenko up and she walked on the police's shields to the Administration building.
During the Orange Revolution, his party voted for changes to the Constitution of Ukraine, changes which reduced the powers of the presidency. Moroz has also spoken in support of the preservation of land for Ukrainian farmers and has made many promises about resolving social problems using socialist rhetoric.
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The Sievierodonetsk Congress on November 28, 2004, was an all—Ukrainian congress of deputies of all levels during the socio-political crisis in the autumn of 2004 caused by the Orange Revolution in order to develop a common strategy for stabilizing the situation in the country.