in with the new

Europe, that is.

Viktor Yushchenko became Ukraine's president Sunday and vowed to overturn its post-Soviet legacy by seeking a place in Europe for the people he led in a peaceful revolt against a rigged election and pressure from Russia.

Watched by Secretary of State Colin Powell, seven presidents of ex-communist states and relatively minor dignitaries from Moscow, Yushchenko took the oath of office in parliament to cap his two-month “Orange Revolution.”

Presumably, this is Powell's last official function as Secretary of State. On the left in this photo is Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski; at the right is Vaclev Havel, the playwright who led the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and who later became president of the Czech Republic.

This picture's nice, too.