 Before that, all Soviet Internal Troops based in Ukraine were reorganized into the National Guard of Ukraine (initially as the Republican Guard) by a January 24, 1991 decree of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada.The troops later returned to their former tasks (and name), and the National Guard was disbanded.The Orange Revolution was a series of peaceful protests which overturned a presidential election during the winter of 2004–2005, resulting in the election of Viktor Yushchenko.