Ukraine poll puts nation at crossroad
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KIEV: Ukrainians went to the polls yesterday in a knife-edge presidential election fraught with East-West rivalries that observers described as a moment of truth for the future of democracy in the former Soviet republic.
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Supporters of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko, who has promised to move the country closer to the European Union, celebrated after exit polls showed him leading in the race to succeed ...
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Ever since the election in Ukraine, reformers have won just about every tactical political or public relations battle. A key reason for this is paradoxical.
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&quot;Things are not peaceful and quiet here. As long as the current administration is in power then we can only expect that they may forge the results,&quot; says Viktor Yushchenko, the main opposition leader.
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Ukrainian voters start choosing a new president on Sunday, a tense contest to determine whether the ex-Soviet state intensifies traditional links with Moscow or begins looking toward the West.
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the chance to choose a government and president expected to take the country into the European Union in 2007. The unfolding drama in neighbouring Ukraine has added an extra tension to the vote.
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As Ukrainians in the United States voted on Sunday, the fear that their homeland might again fall under Russian influence had not died.
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AMERICANS anticipating a close presidential election and anxious about the legitimacy of the outcome might consider Sunday&#39;s inconclusive presidential vote in Ukraine, a nation of 48 million people whose geopolitical perch between Europe and Russia makes
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LVIV, Ukraine -- Students here sent e-mails to friends, prodding them to get to Kiev. Workers traveled back and forth from the Ukrainian capital in shifts. Factory owners were lenient with absences. Entire families sometimes went together.
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All three exit polls tracking Sunday's presidential election in Ukraine gave opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko a commanding lead of at least 15 percent.
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Early official results gave Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych a strong lead Monday in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election, but exit polls showed him running a tight race with reformist Viktor Yushchenko in balloting marred by fears of
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Is there really any surprise that Ukraine seems poised to vote for democracy this weekend? On Sunday, just five weeks after a rigged run-off presidential election brought thousands into the
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Thirty-seven percent of Ukrainians are ready to vote for presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych and 31 percent said they will vote for his rival, Viktor Yushchenko, a poll conducted by the Public Opinion ...
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KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine voted Sunday for a new president in a closely-watched repeat election to decide whether the strategic ex-Soviet republic breaks with the past and aligns itself with Western democracies or remains under Russian domination.
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Eastern Europe's largest country outside of Russia stands at a crossroads this weekend, as voters in Ukraine decide between an autocratic leader who leans toward an increasingly autocratic Russia, or a ...
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Voters across Ukraine returned to the polls today in the run-off presidential election between two candidates who virtually tied in the first round of voting last month
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Voters across Ukraine are casting ballots for a new President to succeed outgoing President Leonid Kuchma. The election is being watched by the West as a possible indicator of the country&#39;s future course.