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Official sources within the Presidential Secretariat informed the Kyiv Post that the president signed the new controversial presidential election bill. Associated Press President Victor Yushchenko on Feb. 4 at around 14:00 signed into law last-minute changes to a controversial election law passed in parliament on Feb. 3.

The changes "make the election false, dishonest and uncontrollable," according to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who has accused her rival Victor Yanukovych of turning the poll into a sham.

Tymoshenko said on Feb. 4 she would call people out onto the streets if she considered procedures and vote-counting were rigged in next Sunday's election for president.

You can read the Ukrainian version of the news on the president's website.