Orange revolution:

I stumbled across a very interesting programme yesterday. It was a called ‘see hear’ on BBC 2. It’s a programme for people with hearing difficulties and is presented in sign language, with subtitles and narration. It turned out to be based in Ukraine and looking into the presidential election. It was reported in our news that the elections were rigged and that the news reporters in Ukraine were being told what to say by the Russians and current Ukrainian president to be biased towards one side. The girl the programme was focusing in on in Ukraine was called Natalya who worked for the only news channel who had translation into sign language. Natalya felt guilty about translating lies so she decided that she was would tell the truth. She tied an orange band around her wrist to show her support for the revolution against the government and when it came to translate she revealed her orange band and translated that what the reporter was saying was a lie and explained what was really going on in the elections. It seems that because of her the news spread through Ukraine that what they were watching on the news wasn’t actually true. Some time after that her life was in danger [Programme didn’t really go into detail on that] President Bush flew her to Russia and told her that Yushchenko [newly elected president] would be ok and so would Ukraine. Pretty Fantastic story I thought and one that never came out on the news here to my knowledge anyway. You can read the full story on the following link- Kiev Post