Ukraine opposition cheers reform vote
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KIEV -- Tens of thousands of opposition supporters, many of them haggard and shivering after 17 days of round-the-clock street protests, chanted and danced in triumph after parliament approved reforms yesterday to ensure a fair ballot in Ukraine's repeat presidential election.
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Ukraine's opposition presidential hopeful  Viktor Yushchenko said on Wednesday parliament's vote to root  out cheating in elections opened the way for him to win a  re-run of a rigged poll.
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The end of weeks of political turmoil in Ukraine was in sight after the pro-Europe Viktor Yushchenko was officially declared the winner of a re-run presidential vote, paving the way for the inauguration of the "orange revolution" hero.
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Thousands of haggard, shivering and determined opposition protesters danced and sang in triumph yesterday after Ukraine&#39;s parliament approved amendments to ensure a fair ballot in the presidential rerun later this month.
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Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko hailed a new political era in the former Soviet republic after exit polls and early official results gave him a formidable lead over his rival in a historic rerun presidential vote.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko won Ukraine's presidential election by more than two million votes, officials said Tuesday, but his rival refused to concede defeat and claimed that almost five million people had been unable to cast ballots.
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An elderly Ukrainain woman, Paraska Mostosvenko, casts her ballot in the village of Gvozdov, south of Kiev, Sunday. KIEV, Ukraine -- Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, widely seen as a pro
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KYIV, Ukraine  - An exit poll and early returns from abroad Sunday showed opposition challenger Viktor Yushchenko heading to a commanding victory in Ukraine's presidential run-off, which pitted the western-leaning reformer against the Kremlin-praised prime minister in a vote many feared would turn violent.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - West-leaning opposition leader  Viktor Yushchenko took an unassailable lead Monday in Ukraine's  re-run presidential election, promising to end corruption and  reform the ex-Soviet state's damaged economy.
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Ukrainian opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko on Monday clamed victory in the rerun of Ukrainian presidential election, saying the nation was beginning a new political life.
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Ukraine's pro-West opposition insisted it would not accept reforms to strip much of the presidency's powers ahead of a rerun presidential election that its leader Viktor Yushchenko is hopeful he will win.
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Ukraine's opposition candidate for president said Friday whoever wins this weekend's election will enhance the nation's ties to Russia.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - 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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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 participants in the rally adopted a resolution to hail the candidate's effort to preserve civil peace and calm in Ukraine and the nation's territorial integrity.
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Ukraine confirmed Western-oriented Viktor  Yushchenko as winner of the presidential election on Monday,  paving the way for an historic change of power that his  opponent denounced as "a revolution."
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Opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko took a symbolic oath of office in his country&#39;s parliament yesterday as supporters whose