“Orange items cost more then anything else. I had to pay 120 hrynvya ($1=5 Ukrainian hryvnya) for this shawl, which is quite a lot for me,” – Ukrainian Yulia Zerniy told Russian RIA Novosti flaunting her orange-colored shawl on Kiev’s capital’s main street Kreschatik. “But now anyone can tell I support Yuschenko.”

Patriotically-spirited Ukrainians decorate antennas of their cars with orange, (or blue, depending on political preferences) ribbons. Dyeing one’s hair into blue and yellow national flag colors is also becoming trendy.

Radio Journalist Tatyana came up with the most original and inexpensive solution: she wears orange and blue shoelaces and her fingernail are painted yellow and blue to signify journalistic objectiveness.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's outgoing president Leonid Kuchma says the round table meeting on political crisis failed to reach an agreement. The two presidential candidates (pro-power Victor Yanukovich and opposition candidate Victor Yuschenko) did not agree on key issues of the political reform and government resignation. The country has entered a third week of uncertainty and political turmoil.

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