Thank you for your fair question.
I stated in previous threads, but I pretty much get tired of saying it again and again, but here it is in a nut shell.
Yushchenko and Yanushevych are both corrupt politicians, which is par for the course over there. Kuchma and Yanushevych have been in power, and the economy was getting better, there is nothing major going wrong. He supported the US with troops in Iraq, while we have some of our fine European allies putting roadblocks in front of us, instead of supporting us.
Along comes Yanushevych, who, by the way, previously used to be part of the Kuchma government.
Yushchenko is supported by Soros and the EU countries. Yanushevych is supported by Putin. Well, if I have to pick oone, I pick Putin over Soros.
I get really irritated, when some well meaning people swallow the propaganda of Yushchenko being the lily white liberator, trying to liberate Ukraine from evil Russia.
Yushchenko is an opportunist, just like Kerry, that's all he is.
Oh, and BTW, Yushchenko is not supporting the US, he wants to immediately withdraw the Ukraine troops from Iraq.
So, who is better for the US?
And why go to war with Russia, to install an anti-US polititian in Ukraine?
And one more thing -- half of the country voted for one guy, half for the other guy, It isn't, as if everyone in Ukraine wants Yushchenko, and evil Russia is trying to foist someone on them, that nobody voted for.
Half of Ukraine actually wants to secede, if Yushchenko gets elected.
With all the fraud going on on BOTH sides, it's impossible tell, who really won the election, but it was a few percentage points either way.
Reading Yushchenko's claims, they don't sound much different, than reading the Dems' claims about the election in the US.