Ukraine waits for key ruling on disputed vote, Russia slams West
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Ukraine's top court was poised to rule on the disputed presidential election that has plunged this strategic nation into crisis as Russia fired off yet another blast at the West for what it said was "destructive" interference that could destabilize the continent.
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A tense Ukraine awaited a supreme court hearing on a bitterly disputed presidential election that has split this former Soviet republic and left Moscow and Western capitals glowering at each other across a Cold War-like divide.
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KIEV, Ukraine Ukraine&#39;s Supreme Court has begun weighing its ruling in the country&#39;s election crisis. A ruling could come today on the opposition&#39;s demand for a new vote for president.
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KIEV - Ukraineâs hotly contested presidential election Monday headed into a second-round showdown between a pro-West candidate and his pro-Russia rival following an inconclusive first-round vote slammed by international observers.
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Russians voted Sunday in regional ballots marred by complaints that Kremlin opponents are increasingly sidelined ahead of national parliamentary elections in December and a vote to replace President Vladimir Putin next year.
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The Bush administration is withholding recognition of pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko as Ukraine's new president until all complaints and challenges filed by his opponent are resolved by the country's central election commission.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's Supreme Court took a step closer to an anxiously awaited ruling on the validity of the disputed presidential runoff, but adjourned for the day Thursday without a decision.
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Russian and Western leaders are sharply at odds over the country's election crisis.
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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 pro-West opposition was locked in a fresh standoff with the ruling regime after a stunning court victory handed it a rerun later this month of a contested presidential vote.
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In a sharp statement of dismay over abuses and official interference before Sunday's presidential election, U.S. officials say Ukraine could face punitive measures if the vote is not free and fair.
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that Russia was concerned by the West's attempts to influence the situation in Ukraine, where allegations of vote fraud have sparked a political crisis that has brought the rival candidates' supporters into the streets.
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A tense standoff gripped Ukraine on Monday after its pro-Russia Prime Minister won the presidential runoff, with the opposition mounting massive protests to contest the results of a vote that Washington and Europe said was rigged by the state.
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NATO and Russia put weeks of tension behind them to call on Thursday for a free and fair election in Ukraine as aides of liberal Viktor Yushchenko predicted victory for their
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International mediators are to try to break the deadlock caused by Ukraine's disputed presidential elections.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 23 -- With parliamentary elections just weeks away, Russia has still not extended an invitation to Europe's principal election watchdog to monitor the vote. Opposition activists and Western diplomats charge that the authorities here are deliberately stalling to limit the work of an...
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Ukrainians look poised to elect a Western-leaning liberal as president, overturning the result of a rigged poll last month that pitched the ex-Soviet state into turmoil.