Ukraine Leader Rejects Election Reform Demands
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's outgoing President  Leonid Kuchma Monday rejected reform of the country's election  laws on terms set by the opposition ahead of a re-run of the  ex-Soviet state's rigged vote later this month.
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The Russian president rejected the idea of new Ukrainian elections and criticized European efforts to mediate.
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Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, back in   office nearly two years after his "Orange Revolution" defeat,   vowed on Tuesday to oversee faster reform, but Ukraine's main   opposition leader dismissed his promises as meaningless.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's outgoing leader denied  on Tuesday he had agreed on concessions with his opponents to  end a crisis that has plunged the country into turmoil and  driven a wedge between Russia and the West.
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Ukraine's two combative leaders forged a compromise on Sunday to hold a parliamentary election in September, but within hours the prime minister said the deal was against his better judgment and must meet legal conditions.
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KYIV, Ukraine (CP) - Ukraine's two rivals for power failed in nearly three hours of talks Friday to resolve a political stalemate over who will lead the bitterly divided country and opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko told a rally he is insisting on a new election.
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Ukraine&#39;s opposition, whose insistence that it was cheated out of victory in a presidential election has brought thousands onto the streets, has rejected talks in favour of &quot;people power&quot;.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's Parliament on Saturday failed to approve changes to electoral laws that the opposition wanted to prevent official fraud in a rerun of a presidential election later this month.
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Ukraine lurched deeper into political chaos Wednesday as the opposition called a general strike and rejected results handing victory in a disputed presidential election to its pro-Russia prime minister.
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Ukrainian lawmakers have failed to adopt election law changes the opposition says are needed to avert fraud in a repeat presidential run-off.
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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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"We cannot head state institutions which are going to implement programmes that are not consistent with our vision of Ukraine's prospects."  Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Monday gave a top job to an ally of his "Orange Revolution" rival, former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, but Yanukovich said he opposed the appointment. via Reuters UK
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Ukraine&#39;s election commission rejected the entire appeal by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych against results showing he lost this week&#39;s repeat running, saying he had not proved there were any mass violations, a commission member
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The winner of Ukraine's bitterly fought presidential election called on supporters to block a cabinet meeting on Wednesday after his opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, refused to concede defeat.
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Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, back in  office nearly two years after his "Orange Revolution" defeat,  vowed on Tuesday to oversee faster reform, but Ukraine's main  opposition leader dismissed his promises as meaningless.
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KIEV - Ukraine&#39;s parliament failed Saturday to pass a set of reforms designed to prevent fraud in the next round of presidential balloting.
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Ukraine's outgoing President Leonid Kuchma  said on Tuesday he had agreed to sack the central election  commission and support election law reform -- both key  opposition demands to end mass protests against a rigged vote.