
Several groups are competing for power and a place in any future political structure in Ukraine. The first is the Fatherland Party, under the leadership of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko. While Timoshenko has been willing to cooperate with Moscow in the past, Fatherland is currently Western-oriented and can be expected to push for further integration with the European Union in the near future in trying to balance against Russia. In recent months, the nationalist Svoboda party has played an active and sometimes aggressive role in the coalition that has represented the opposition throughout Ukraine's protests. While Svoboda has been committed to cooperating with both Fatherland and the United Democratic Alliance for Reform throughout the protests and the formation of the interim government, the party's strongly nationalist and right-wing ideology ultimately could put it at odds with more pragmatic members of the coalition.