The seventh anniversary of Ukraine's Orange Revolution has highlighted politically charged perspectives on that country's protest-fueled showdown in 2004 that pitted pro-democracy activists alleging electoral fraud against the forces behind current President Viktor Yanukovych, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Local authorities had imposed restrictions that critics say are a result of the current administration's lingering resentment toward what detractors regard contemptuously as a Western-orchestrated "color revolution."

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