As Ukraine Staggers, Its Leaders Quarrel - NYTimes.com

As Ukraine Staggers, Its Leaders Quarrel - NYTimes.com: "“Yushchenko thinks he is God,” said Mikhail Pogrebinsky, a political analyst at a research and polling center in Kiev, pointing to Mr. Yushchenko’s visit last week to Istanbul, where he gave Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Eastern Orthodox Church a specially minted coin with his image on it, while at home his country’s currency plummeted.

Ms. Tymoshenko is also capable of political magic tricks. Last year she colluded with Mr. Yushchenko, withdrawing all her deputies from Parliament to give him legal justification for dissolving it and calling new elections."