Posted on 11/22/2004 3:10:22 PM PST by DTaggart
IEV, Ukraine, Nov. 22 - Ukraine approached a political stalemate today, as preliminary vote counts of the presidential runoff election indicated that Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovich had won the race but international observers described widespread voting abuses and the opposition candidate forcefully refused to accept official results.
With more than 98 percent of ballots counted, the government tally gave Mr. Yanukovich 49.57 percent of the vote to 46.57 percent for Viktor A. Yushchenko, whose supporters turned out by the thousands in Independence Square here, claiming the election had been rigged and vowing to demonstrate until results were released reflecting the will of the people.
"We will stay here as long as we can to show the power elite that there are many of us," said Elena Bondarchuk, 36, a historian who stood near the heart of the rally in the darkness and cold this evening.
"To victory!" said Nina Kovalevskaya, 53, standing beside her. "To our victory!"
So where was that monastary that George Soros going to?
from what I heard, at least this guy has a legitimate case, the pro Moscow crew had this one fixed from the word go.
Some wonderful choice they had, a pro western liberal and a commie who would like to see the Soviet Union restored (which is Putin's aim as well)
The Russian mob rigged the election, IMO.
We have a Ukranian exchange student living with us and she received an e-mail from her father today. He said that this has the potential to get very, very, ugly.
Apparently it is really a country divided right down the middle...geographically.
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