Here are a few good articles I wanted to highlight that describe what has just happened in the protests, and what will soon happen under Yushchenko. They depend on Yushchenko winning the presidency, but that initial presupposition and the articles themselves are good bets from some great bettors on Ukraine.
Taras Kuzio, in an article Yushchenko Victory to Speed Up Ukraine's Democratization and Europeanization in the Eurasian Daily Monitor, gives his usual great assessment of all the political realignments that have recently occurred and what further sackings and judicial inquiries to expect. [hat tip Action Ukraine Report]
Nataliya Yatsenko, writing in Dzerkalo Tizhnya, describes The Budget Drafted by Cynics. This account describes just how unsustainable Yanukovych's pensions giveaway is. Budget headaches resulting from this will probably be one of Yushchenko's first major problems to deal with as President. It confirms Yushchenko's words from his campaign and from the debates yesterday--the pension one-off was a crude bit of populism.
When I saw Yanukovych say, in his first debate with Yushchenko, that he would not have run for President if he had not been blessed by a (Russian Orthodox) priest in Israel, I felt a ringing sense that he'd just uttered a powerful word of blasphemy. The Sin of their Mouths, the Word of their Lips, by Myroslav Marynovych and also in Dzerkalo Tizhnya, is an article decribing the moral struggle in this election. I include it not only because it is good, but also because it is extremely rare to see such overt and strong biblical language used in discussions of Eastern European politics.