Boxing champ Klitschko emerges as contender in Ukraine crisis


  • World
  • Wednesday, 04 Dec 2013

Vitaly Klitschko (C), heavyweight boxing champion and UDAR (Punch) party leader, his wife Natalia (R, first row) and Jaroslaw Kaczynski (L, first row), leader of Poland's main opposition Law and Justice Party (PiS), attend a rally held by supporters of EU integration in Kiev, December 1, 2013. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

KIEV (Reuters) - Urbane liberals are joining black-booted skinheads to protest on the streets of Kiev, but if the Orange Revolution of nine years ago is to be repeated, they need a leader to unite them.

Enter Vitaly Klitschko, a towering world boxing champion with a doctorate in sports science, who is looking increasingly like the opposition's most powerful contender.

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