MOSCOW, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko was accused Monday of trying to destabilize Russia, Interfax news agency reported.
Tymoshenko has been widely tipped as President-elect Viktor Yushchenko's most likely choice to be prime minister following his presidential election victory Dec. 26. However, Konstantin Zatulin, Russian State Duma deputy and head of the Institute of Commonwealth of Independent States Studies, told Interfax he believed her calls to export Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" were aimed at destabilizing the government in Russia.
The Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta Monday carried an interview with Tymoshenko in which she said the "orange revolution should be an example for other countries."
"Join us. I think the Orange Revolution should be exported wherever possible," it quoted her as saying.
"This statement betrays an intention to undermine the authorities and provoke a crisis in Russia, which is doubtless the main target of all those orange, chestnut and rose revolutions," Zatulin told Interfax.
