Pro-Western candidate wins first round of Ukraine vote
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Pro-Western opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko narrowly won the first round of Ukraine's presidential elections against the pro-Moscow candidate, whom he will face later this month in a runoff vote, according to official results.
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THE Ukrainian parliament unanimously approved the former fiery opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister yesterday and set Ukraine on a westward course.
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Viktor Yushchenko is the winner of Ukraine&#39;s presidential rerun, with 52 percent of the votes to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych&#39;s 44 percent.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Liberal challenger Viktor  Yushchenko won a re-run of Ukraine's rigged presidential  election by a wide margin, according to exit polls published  after voting closed Sunday.
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Ukrainians voted for a new president on Sunday, choosing between their Russian-backed prime minister and a West-leaning liberal in a tight contest many fear could degenerate into turmoil.
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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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KIEV, Ukraine -- The opposition candidate won the most votes today in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election but fell short of a first-round victory, according to an exit poll conducted by a consortium of non-governmental and polling groups.
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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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Liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko won a re-run of Ukraine's rigged presidential election by a substantial margin according to an exit poll published just after voting closed Sunday.
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Ukraine's parliament confirmed a pro-Moscow politician as prime minister and endorsed a new coalition government including pro-Western elements, ending a four-month-long political stalemate but keeping alive prospects for NATO and the European Union membership.
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Ukrainians voted for a new president on  Sunday, choosing between their Russian-backed prime minister  and a West-leaning liberal in a tight contest many fear could  degenerate into turmoil.
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In an action that many Western countries opposed, Ukraine&#39;s Central Election Commission today declared Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovich the winner in a presidential election denounced by the opposition as marked by mass fraud.
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Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine&#39;s former prime minister who is seeking to bring the country closer to the European Union, won the first round of voting to choose a successor to President Leonid Kuchma, an exit poll showed.
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Pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich was ahead in Ukraine's presidential election with 51.17 percent of the vote after 26 percent of ballots were counted, the central electoral commission said.
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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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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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KIEV : Ukrainians voted for a new president, choosing between a Western-leaning reformer and their pro-Russian prime minister, in a bitterly-fought contest that many fear could provoke turmoil and even violence.