Yanukovych refuses to concede
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Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych refused Monday to concede defeat in Ukraine&#39;s weekend presidential election, and said he would go to the Supreme Court to challenge the results.
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Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich resigned from his post and admitted his appeals over a presidential rerun vote were unlikely to be granted, but he stopped short of conceding the election to opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.
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Ukraine's Supreme Court on Monday turned down four appeals of last month's presidential election results filed by Viktor Yanukovych, the former prime minister who preliminary results show lost to a ...
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Supporters of President-elect Viktor Yushchenko aren&#39;t backing down, heeding the call of their leader by blocking the prime minister from holding a government session.
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych refused to accept defeat in Sunday&#39;s presidential election re-run, claiming that millions of his supporters were disenfranchised and that there was systematic fraud.
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Pressure mounted yesterday on the losing Ukrainian presidential candidate, Viktor Yanukovich, to accept defeat and allow his rival, Viktor Yushchenko, to accede power after clearly winning Sunday&#39;s run-off election.
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Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko claimed his victory Monday in Sunday&#39;s repeated presidential run-off while his opponent Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich refused to concede the defeat.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's pro-Russian prime minister showed no signs of giving in to pressure to step down following his defeat in the country's repeat presidential election.
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Viktor A. Yushchenko's opponent refused to accept the results and said he would challenge them in court.
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Viktor Yanukovych announced his resignation as prime minister on Friday, handing Ukraine's pro-Western opposition a symbolic victory, but he vowed to continue his court battle for the presidency of this ex-Soviet republic.
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Despite the Ukrainian Supreme Court&#39;s decision last week to order a re-run of the second round of the country&#39;s disputed presidential election, the standoff between the two sides continues.
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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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KIEV -- Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said yesterday that he would not accept a victory by his opponent in the Dec. 26 rerun of Ukraine's contested presidential race and that his supporters were likely to turn out onto the streets en masse to block such an outcome.
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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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West-leaning opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko looked certain Monday to become Ukraine's next president, but his opponent, the prime minister, refused to concede defeat in the bitterly fought contest.
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Ukraineâs opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko basked in his unassailable lead today as prime minister Viktor Yanukovych refused to admit defeat, with just tens of thousands of ballots left to be counted in the bitterly-fought presidential election.
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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.