Yanukovych pledges to fight attempts to split Ukraine
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, who openly backed Viktor Yushchenko&#39;s rival for president of the Ukraine, said in an abrupt reversal Tuesday that he could work with an administration headed by the pro-Western candidate.
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The liberal challenger in a closely fought  presidential election in Ukraine raised the stakes on Friday,  threatening to bring his supporters onto the streets if the  authorities tried to deny him victory by cheating.
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Addressing the challenge of a political east/west split will be a top priority for a Yushchenko presidency, experts say.
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Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, fresh  from securing a re-run of Ukraine's disputed election,on  Saturday tore up a deal to reduce the president's powers and  told his supporters to keep up pressure on the streets.
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Ukraine&#39;s Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovich, is facing one final avenue of appeal in a desperate bid to contest his loss of a re-run presidential election to opposition rival Viktor Yushchenko.
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Ukraine's former Prime Minister Viktor  Yanukovich will challenge his defeat in last month's  presidential election at the Supreme Court on Thursday, even  though he has acknowledged he has no hope of success.
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich  said on Saturday he would run against opposition liberal Viktor  Yushchenko again in a rerun of their contested presidential  election and he defiantly vowed he would win.
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Viktor Yanukovych has said he will not resign as Ukrainian prime minister after losing the presidential election. He also submitted legal challenges to contest the preliminary results of the election, claiming multiple abuses.
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Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma said Monday he would not meet demands from liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko to dismiss his government or reform election laws until the opposition agreed to curb presidential powers.
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Patriarch Filaret of Kiev, the leader of one of three separate groups competing for the allegiance of the Orthodox faithful in Ukraine, has called for unification of the nation's Orthodox churches.
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KIEV -- The political crisis over Ukraine's disputed presidential election threatened yesterday to tear the nation apart as leaders of eastern provinces pressed demands bordering on separatism and opposition supporters pledged to block the outgoing president's movements if he didn't meet their demands.
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Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, fresh  from securing a re-run of Ukraine's disputed election, tore up  a deal on Saturday to reduce the president's powers and told  his supporters to keep up pressure on the streets.
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continue,&quot; said Socialist leader Oleksander Moroz. &quot;(Yushchenko&#39;s) Our Ukraine bloc is trying to find a way. east, the heartland of his Moscow-backed rival for the presidency, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich.
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Ukraine's leader attempted to ease fears he might hinder a repeat of the fraud-ridden presidential runoff, pledging Monday to honor the Supreme Court's call for a repeat vote.
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Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who had his earlier election win annulled, is contesting the latest results of the weekend presidential re-run in Ukraine.
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Ukraine's defeated presidential candidate  on Wednesday made a last-ditch but seemingly hopeless attempt  to challenge the victory of his liberal opponent, Viktor  Yushchenko.
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Ukraine will contest the privatization of some 3,000 former state enterprises under a previous administration, Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko said Wednesday.