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Article: For Ukrainians, it's 'deja vote'; The week before Sunday's presidential rerun, Viktor Yushchenko held a 9-point lead over Viktor Yanukovich.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 24, 2004
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Byline: Fred Weir
KIEV, UKRAINE -- Worries about violence and fraud persist, but many Ukrainians seem to have embraced the opportunity to go back and correct mistakes by replaying last month's disputed presidential election.
The outcome of Sunday's polls, in which pro-Western candidate Viktor Yushchenko and Kremlin-backed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich face off in an unprecedented third round, will measure how deeply Ukrainian political culture has been altered by a month of street protests, dramatic legal challenges, and world attention, experts say.
Apparent attempts to install Mr. Yanukovich in the presidency through fraud - and by ...