The end of a long, drawn out saga– Victor Yushchenko was sworn in the Ukrainian Supreme Rada in Kiev today, Ukraine’s third post-soviet president.

In spite of all that was stacked up against them, the Ukrainian people rose to meet their challenges and show the entire world how democracy could be won.

It is over in a way, and yet it is not over. Victory for the Orange Revolution, but the fight for a truly free– in Yushchenko’s words, an “authentically independent and democratic” Ukraine is just beginning. May the impetus gathered in the streets of the tent city not loose its potency in the halls of power, and reform find its way into the most entrenched corners of the establishment.