Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yushchenko, should turn to an entirely new team of technocrats, not politicians, to form the next government, Parliament speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said today.

UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yushchenko fired his seven-month-old government yesterday, dismissing the heroine of the Orange Revolution that brought him to power as well as one of its top financial backers.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko today dismissed his Cabinet amid swirling allegations of corruption, saying members of the fragile coalition formed after last year’s Orange Revolution had turned on one another.

Pilot error appears likely cause of the Ukrainian air show disaster after investigators today ruled out aircraft failure.