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Fraud claims mar Ukraine polls


Polls have closed in Ukrainian parliamentary elections that monitors
allege were rigged.

Although exit polls had the bloc led by Viktor Yanukovych, the prime
minister, in the lead with 35.5 per cent of the vote, former "Orange
Revolution" partners Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko could
together win a majority.


The bloc led by Tymoshenko, the former prime minister, was second with
31.5 per cent while Yushchenko, the president, saw his group trailing with
13.4 per cent.

West-leaning Tymoshenko and Yushchenko led the Orange Revolution in
2004 that swept the pro-Russian Yanukovych from power.

But the two fell out and Yushchenko fired Tymoshenko's government in 2005.


Allies again

The two appear to be allies again, however, with Tymoshenko saying she
would meet Yushchenko on Monday to quickly formalise their new alliance.

"In one or two days we will announce the coalition," Tymoshenko, smiling
triumphantly, told reporters.

Yuriy Lutsenko, the leader of Yushchenko's party, said it was ready to
back Tymoshenko as prime minister after the coalition is formed.

A somber-looking Yanukovych made a brief statement in which he tried to
present the results as his party's victory, saying it would now start talks
with potential coalition partners.

"We consider the election results as a carte blanche for our party to form
a new government," he said.


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2C47BBD7-12FC-44A6-BDA0-2776EFCF1213.htm

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Democracy Goes Wild In Ukraine
By MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press Writer

KIEV, Ukraine - Election ballots that magically change votes. Polling stations that burst into flames.
Voters hypnotized by a psychic



Ukraine's young democracy is anything but boring.

This former Soviet republic is still experimenting with democracy, ushered in by the Orange Revolution three years ago. The results are impressive: a stream of competitive elections, vibrant media, and a robust opposition.

Plus comedy.

Having lived under centuries of Russian Czarist rule, 70 years of Soviet communism and a bleak decade of post-Soviet stagnation, today's Ukraine is in many ways Russia's antithesis.

In Russia, critics complain of increasingly heavy-handed rule. Opposition rallies are violently dispersed, election results are all but known in advance and everything is taken very seriously.

Here, the more hotly contested an election is, the better ...

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ukraine_democracy_fiesta;_ylt=An9Ei5.BU4U0XdjPoBnkGdwDW7oF

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