After years of political instability, Ukrainians go to the polls today in a presidential election which they hope will bring strong leadership to the former Soviet state. Russia and the EU will be hoping for the same. The final days before the Ukrainian presidential election have been colored not by flags of orange but by murky accusations of attempted fraud and the garish bunting of flip-flopping populism. With fiery Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and bitter opponent Viktor Yanukovich leading the pack of eighteen candidates, the rivalries and distrust which have been simmering between the two front-runners since the 2004 "Orange Revolution" have reached boiling point as the final campaign phase goes into overdrive.