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Article: In the 'Borderland': the struggle for Ukraine.(The World)
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- National Review
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- December 27, 2004
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'THEY won: decisively, irreversibly, and unconditionally." That is the reaction of the Russian daily Izvestiia to the decision of Ukraine's supreme court to annul the results of the recent presidential election and hold a new one. The "they" in that sentence are the supporters of Victor Yushchenko, who, according to all observers, had been deprived of victory by blatant electoral fraud perpetrated by Yushchenko's main opponent, Viktor Yanukovych, and his backers, namely outgoing president Leonid Kuchma and Ukraine's Russian minority. Never before have events in Ukraine attracted so much attention abroad, and rightly so: They represent a genuine democratic revolution with ...