Here are some more links on current Ukraine news. My apologies if it looks like little more than a roundup of Google Alert articles. It pretty much is:

The Rejection and Acceptance of Yekhanurov

Yushchenko overcomes crisis in Ukraine in the Financial Times

Yushchenko talking with the Party of Regions in Ukrainska Pravda - it's fun to see Khomutynnyk say "no compromise" right before they compromised

Ukraine Plunges Deeper Into Political Turmoil in the NYT - Nothing huge in this article, but I like the Editorial footnote at the end:

There was considerable discussion in Washington yesterday about the 'unusual 'political strategy of the Yushchenko team.  The president had only been back in Ukraine for one working day before the vote on his prime minister candidate, after being in the United States four four days.

If there were not enough votes to confirm the acting PM why not find a way to delay the vote and give the President and his team more time to get the situation under control.  What was the rush to send the President to the parliament to make an impassioned speech, to have a vote the President and his team ended up losing?

Did the President's team count the votes or leave this to chance?  As they say in Washington no vote is better than a 'no' vote. The strategy of the Yushchenko team to run quickly and full-speed ahead into a major defeat did not make much sense to political experts in Washington.

More on Yushchenko

Yushchenko says he will not resist political reform from Interfax - it's only words, but it's nice to see him say "I pledge I will not make any destructive moves to warp the chartered course of political reform." after seeming to try to put off reform last week

Ukraine abolishes state secretary, presidential first aide posts from Interfax - Yushchenko just scrapped the positions vacated by Zinchenko and Tretyakov. They were oddities as positions, with questionable mandates and powers the holders could theoretically expand by force of personality. I take this as a sign that Yushchenko is cutting back to a drab, economist-boring style government structure by eliminating personality posts. On the whole a good thing for a nation fed up with personality politics.

After the sacking of Ukraine's government in the Economist - I'm so surprised, I usually really like the Economist's coverage. However, this conclusion seems excessively negative:

he big loser is Ukraine. Subject to confirmation by parliament, the new prime minister will be Yuri Yekhanurov, a technocrat who has signalled a less aggressive attitude to past privatisations and a more conciliatory one to Russia-sensible, given that a rise in Russian gas prices could be disastrous. But it will be hard for him to achieve much before March.

Meanwhile, disillusioned Ukrainians fear that the new government will be as preoccupied with nest-feathering and back-stabbing as the old one. It may be too soon to conclude that the revolution was simply the victory of one corrupt elite over another. But, as Mr Yushchenko said last week, "the government obtained many new faces, yet the paradox is that the face of the government itself did not change."  

Orange Crushed in the Wall Street Journal - I much prefer this take on the event to the Economist's:

Many people have rushed to pronounce the Orange Revolution dead. Opponents of Ukrainian democracy -- foremost in a Kremlin visibly nervous that this experiment might catch on in the neighborhood -- want to declare last year's political turnover a fatal mistake. The European Union for its part points to the troubles in Kiev to justify its preferred hands-off approach to Ukraine.

To these doubters, Ukrainians can respond that democracies are seldom placid. The upheavals in the Berlin Republic this past week are a good reminder that open, competitive politics can be messy. But, as the recently freed peoples of the New Europe would rush to attest, it's better than the alternative. In Ukraine until recently, and in Germany two generations ago, and in Russia today, that alternative isauthoritarianism. Ukraine's current crisis grew out of the Orange Revolution. It's not a betrayal of it.

Kuchma's Name Mentioned By Someone, Somewhere

Interview with Hanne Severinsen in Ukrainska Pravda - a fun interview with one of the two Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) representatives to Ukraine. Severinsen has ten years of experience working with the Ukrainian government, so she can speak about it with some authority.

Prosecutors move against $1.32 bln Tymoshenko company debt writeoff in the Ukrainian Journal; according to this article:

The Prosecutor General Office appealed three court rulings taken between February and August that had wiped out 6.6 billion hryvnias, or $1.32 billion, debt owned by the United Energy Systems to the state budget. The debt mostly consists of unpaid taxes and fees.

It's a tad suspicious that this only came up after she offended the President. In a well-run country, a person might start thinking the judiciary was corrupt.