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Adrian Karatnycky: Yanukovych’s two good days
It’s been a pretty good two days for Ukraine’s embattled President Viktor Yanukovych, despite three weeks of massive protests against his reversal of plans to tighten cooperation with the European Union. Monday brought news that government-friendly candidates (most running as independents) won four out of five parliamentary by-elections, most of them in areas that should be friendly to opposition candidates. (Monitors from the Council of Europe judged the voting “well ordered,” although a prominent Ukrainian civic group said heavy vote-buying undermined a fair result in some races.)