Orange Revolution

Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announces that liberal parties agreed to create a coalition at a parliamentary session in Kiev, June 21, 2006.

Parties backing the "Orange Revolution" on Thursday signed a deal to form a coalition government aimed at keeping the pro-Western administration on course for bringing Ukraine into the European mainstream.

Yulia Tymoshenko, whose glamour and passion fired protesters during the 2004 mass upheavals, is to be reinstated as prime minister eight months after being sacked from the job.