weeks after Yushchenko, backed by "Orange Revolution" protests, won a bitterly contested election. Yushchenko has made virtually every policy decision subject to whether it furthers his aim of Ukraine one day joining the European Union. But ministers in Tymoshenko's diverse cabinet have constantly contradicted each other and the issue of reviewing dubious privatisations has proved the most divisive. At one point, Tymoshenko said about 3,000 privatisations in which prosecutors had found irregularities would be reviewed. But she said she had been misinterpreted after Yushchenko said there would be no mass review of post-Soviet privatisations. Earlier this week, Economy Minister Serhiy Teryokhin also said no review list had been drawn up. But the influential secretary of the National Defence and Security Council, Petro Poroshenko, suggested it could be expanded beyond 29 companies. --more 2330 Local Time 2030 GMT
