New Ukraine Leader Poised to Take Power at Last
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Ukraine's Western-leaning new leader  Viktor Yushchenko was poised to take power at last after the  election commission announced it would certify the result of  last month's vote on Monday.
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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 Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in  as Ukraine's new president Sunday, ending weeks of turmoil and  setting the stage for the ex-Soviet state to edge closer to  Europe while upholding traditional links with Russia.
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Ukraine prepared for a new vote on Sunday in hopes to end its political crisis, but those hopes may be premature.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's fiery opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko, said Tuesday she expects nothing less than to be the country's next prime minister, given her stalwart support for Viktor Yushchenko, whose presidency is increasingly likely.
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Ukraine's central election commission meets today to sign off on the final paperwork from last month's presidential election, which could see winner Viktor Yushchenko's victory formally declared at last.
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Viktor Yushchenko was sworn in as president of Ukraine on Sunday, two months after huge protests over his loss in a fraud-plagued election plunged the ex-Soviet republic into political crisis.
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Ukraine appears to be headed toward holding a new election under a deal to adopt a reorganization of political power.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Viktor Yushchenko became  Ukraine's president Sunday and vowed to overturn its  post-Soviet legacy by seeking a place in Europe for the people  he led in a peaceful revolt against a rigged election and  pressure from Russia.
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Ukraine's newly-inaugurated President Viktor Yushchenko prepared to fly to Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin, moving quickly to reassure the leadership in Moscow on his plans to orient his country firmly towards the West.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's new Western-leaning  leader Viktor Yushchenko was close to taking power at last on  Monday, but an eleventh-hour bid by his opponent to challenge  last month's election held up a final declaration of the  winner.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko faces a deadline to either name a new prime minister -- probably his arch-rival Viktor Yanukovych -- or dissolve parliament, as a four-month political crisis came to a head.
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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 ...
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Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who  roused vast crowds during protests against election fraud, said  on Saturday she believed she would be named prime minister once  Viktor Yushchenko is finally inaugurated as president.
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President-elect Viktor Yushchenko met the European Union's foreign policy chief on Friday ahead of his inauguration and a packed European tour aimed at setting Ukraine firmly on a new course closer to the West.
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Before a vast crowd of supporters celebrating with a burst of orange balloons, doves and chants, newly inaugurated President Viktor Yushchenko promised Sunday to steer a new course for Ukraine &#151; away from corruption and political cronyism and into the European Union.
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Ukraine set a date for Viktor Yushchenko's long-delayed inauguration, hours after the supreme court cleared the way for the pro-Western reformer to assume power in the ex-Soviet nation following weeks of political turmoil.