New York Times: Opposition leader declares victory in Ukraine
If the final count confirms the trend, it will amount to a rebuke of the Orange Revolution, which was supposed to serve as a post-Soviet model, moving the country toward a European-style democracy, but has instead given rise to political and economic turm AP

New York Times: Opposition leader declares victory in Ukraine

Feb 8, 2010 at 11:48
The opposition leader Victor F. Yanukovuch declared victory on Sunday in presidential elections in Ukraine, claiming what appeared to be an unlikely comeback from his humiliating defeat in the 2004 Orange Revolution, when he was shunned as a bumbling Kremlin sidekick. But his Orange opponent, Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko, who has a reputation as a fierce political combatant, refused to concede and urged her supporters to wait for the final vote count, which was not expected until later on Monday. Six exit polls by Ukrainian television stations and other agencies found that Mr. Yanukovych was in front by 3 to 6 percentage points.Read the story here.

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