Your assessment is false, I have been teaching here in the Ukraine for three months and observed the election and the aftermath first hand. My Youschenko won the election, the government i.e. President Kuchma and his cronies did not like the results so they committed widespread fraud and to cover their tracks they would not allow independent observers for this second round of the presidential election. This was NOT the case if the first round where Youschenko won. The candidate supported by Kuchma and Putin is a convicted FELLON! having been in prison TWO times! Russia wanted him because he would throw the Ukraine into their sphere. The people saw what was going on and they have REFUSED to stand by and take it any more. The last "presidential election" pitted Kuchma against a communist candidate... big choice, NOT and Kuchma won. This time around there was a REAL choice and the people made it. Like I said, Kuchma and those who have been getting fat off of him here do NOT want the gravy train to end. To show you how nefarious these guys are, the Narada, like our U.S. Senate was supposed to meet yesterday in order to take a vote on whether or not the election was fraudulent. This was clearly the case, in a number of heavily Russian regions, those wishing to vote for the opposition candidate Youchenko were not permitted to vote. In other instances ballot boxes were stuffed before the polls even opened and they ran out of ballots so people were not able to vote. In another instance a policeman guarding the ballot boxes was killed trying to guard them. There have been widespread accounts of dead people voting (does all of this sound familiar?) And in other cases, acid was poured into ballot boxes to destroy the ballots. Everything I have told you is true. This was not a fair election. Youschenko cleaned Yana kovich's clock in the one and only debate they had (ONLY Russia concluded that Yanakovich won the debate.
Like I said, I am here and what is taking place is SPONTANIOUS on the part of Millions of people. What is happening has never been seen before in the entire lifetime of the population. The good news is the people are not just bending over to take it up the wazoo.