Ukraine: Yushchenko Begins Early Campaign?

Ukrainiana writes that president Victor Yushchenko seems to be preparing for the 2009 presidential election by promising, among other things, to pay Ukrainian mothers $3,000 for the birth of a second child – the money that “can buy 1 square meter of middle-class housing in Kyiv.”

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