Ukrainian Electoral Commission Gives Yanukovych Narrow Lead
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Partial returns gave Ukraine's prime minister a slim lead in the nation's bitterly fought presidential runoff, but exit polls put his Western-leaning challenger ahead.
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich had a lead of about percentage points over opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko in the first official results in Ukraine&#39;s presidential run-off announced early on Monday.
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KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine approached a political stalemate yesterday, as preliminary vote counts of the presidential runoff election indicated that Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych had won the race.
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Reformist opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko edged the prime minister in the first round of Ukraine's presidential vote, the Central Elections Commission said Wednesday after a delayed final tally.
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The second round of Ukraineâs presidential election, in which Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich has opened up an unassailable lead, failed to meet many criteria for democratic polls, the Reuters news agency quoted Western monitors as saying on Monday.
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Ukraine&#39;s presidential election went down to the wire yesterday with neither the Western-leaning candidate nor his pro-Russia chief rival managing to grab a decisive lead in the crucial weekend vote.
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Election officials on Thursday rejected Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's voluminous challenge to results showing he lost this week's presidential revote, saying he did not prove any widespread violations.
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Ukraine's opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko narrowly won the first round of the presidential elections, official results show.
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Ruling Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych led the presidential race in Ukraine on Monday, but a run-off against his liberal challenger appeared certain.
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KIEV -- Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko led Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych by a wide margin with two-thirds of the vote counted in Ukraine's repeat presidential runoff yesterday, prompting Yushchenko to claim victory and an end to the 35-day political crisis that split the nation, paralyzed the government, and strained ties between Russia and the West.
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KIEV : Pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich was ahead in preliminary results published Monday from Ukraine&#39;s presidential election, collecting 47.
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Pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich was ahead in Ukraine's presidential election with 51.17 percent of the vote after 26 percent of ballots were counted, the central electoral commission said.
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Ukraine edged a little closer toward a break-up Sunday as a powerful eastern region backing the Moscow-backed prime minister in a disputed election for president set a December referendum on autonomy.
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PRAGUE, Sep 27 (IPS) - Ukraine is again heading for parliamentary  elections after months of power infighting.
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Viktor Yushchenko is the winner of Ukraine&#39;s presidential rerun, with 52 percent of the votes to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych&#39;s 44 percent.
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KIEV -- Ukraine's Supreme Court yesterday blocked the inauguration of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, the declared winner of Sunday's presidential election, agreeing to hear arguments that the vote was tainted by fraud and shifting some momentum to supporters of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
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WHO'S ON TOP: Election officials said Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych led challenger Viktor Yushchenko by less than 3 percentage points in Sunday's presidential runoff.