PM Leads in Ukraine Poll, Liberal Sees Cheating
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Ukraine faced political turmoil on Monday  as partial results in a presidential election put the prime  minister backed by Russia in the lead, while his liberal  challenger alleged cheating and called for street protests.
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Viktor Yushchenko, a Western-leaning opposition candidate, was leading Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine&#39;s extraordinarily tense presidential runoff Sunday
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Opposition hopeful Viktor  Yushchenko said Wednesday a parliamentary vote to root out  cheating in elections opened the way for him to win a re-run of  a rigged presidential poll.
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Liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko has launched a bruising attack on Ukraine's prime minister in a live debate, his rival in re-run of a rigged presidential election, repeatedly putting him on the defensive.
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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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KYIV, Ukraine  - An exit poll showed opposition challenger Viktor Yushchenko with a commanding lead over Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine's presidential run-off Sunday.
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Ukrainians look poised to elect a  Western-leaning liberal as president on Sunday, overturning the  result of a rigged poll last month that pitched the ex-Soviet  state into turmoil.
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Ukraine's prime minister was on the verge of victory in a presidential election on Monday but his liberal rival accused the authorities of mass fraud and told thousands of supporters to stay on the streets in ...
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Ukraine's prime minister was on the verge  of victory in a bitterly-fought presidential election on Monday  that U.S. and Western monitors denounced for not meeting  democratic standards.
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Ukraine's prime minister came out fighting on Friday in the campaign for a re-run of a rigged presidential election, accusing opposition challenger Viktor Yushchenko of instigating "totalitarianism" against voters.
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Viktor Yushchenko, a Western-leaning opposition candidate, was leading Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine's extraordinarily tense presidential runoff  Sunday, according to exit polls, whose accuracy was immediately challenged by backers of the prime minister.
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The Ukrainian opposition on Tuesday complained of foot-dragging by officials and a vote-count cover-up in the race for president, claiming that Viktor Yushchenko had taken the lead.
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KIEV -- Ukraine's prime minister was leading the nation's runoff presidential election, according to partial vote tallies released today, but his Western-leaning challenger held the advantage in an exit poll funded partly by the United States.
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Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych took the official lead today in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election but did not appear to have enough votes to avoid a runoff after balloting
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Exit polls in the re-run of Ukraine's presidential election Sunday said liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko had beaten Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich by a wide margin.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - All three exit polls tracking Sunday's presidential rematch in Ukraine projected opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko as the winner by a large margin over Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.
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Official results showed Ukraineâs prime minister winning the countryâs bitterly fought presidential runoff, but the opposition candidate declared fraud and called his supporters into the streets today after observers said the vote