Pro-Russian faction threatens break up of Ukraine over disputed election
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The crisis over Ukraine's disputed presidential election intensified Sunday, as a key eastern province called a referendum on autonomy and the opposition demanded the current president fire his prime minister, ...
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Ukrainian voters face an array of tensions in the weekend presidential runoff - whether the victor will be a Western-inclined reformer or a Kremlin favourite, and whether unrest will break out if the vote count is alleged to be fraudulent.
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Russia has apparently become the central theme of the presidential election in Ukraine.
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Tensions and risk flared anew in Ukraine on Tuesday after Viktor A. Yushchenko, the opposition leader and presumptive president-elect, called for his supporters to renew
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U.S. and Russian officials clashed Tuesday at a European security forum over Ukraine's disputed presidential runoff election.
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Ukraine's top court convenes on Monday to try to end an election crisis that threatens to break up the country and is straining relations between Russia and the West.
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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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Ukrainians on Sunday cast ballots in a presidential run-off pitting a Western-leaning reformer against the Kremlin-praised prime minister, a vote many fear will erupt into unrest and violence.
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Ukrainian authorities vowed on Friday to uphold public order during a crucial presidential election rerun this weekend, but tensions mounted as the vote drew near, prompting an assurance from Russia that it would not use underhanded tactics to affect the
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The party of Ukrainian President Yushchenko says it will pull its ministers amid a rift with the prime minister.
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Ukraine headed into a third week of turmoil on Monday after presidential hopeful Viktor Yushchenko told supporters to keep up street pressure on the Moscow-backed authorities before the re-run of a rigged election.
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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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MOSCOW - The political crisis in Ukraine, where opposition protesters are burning campfires and setting up tents in the center of Kiev, is presenting a test for Russia, which gambled heavily on its neighbor's presidential election.
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Ukraine prepared Saturday for a knife-edge presidential election amid threats by the opposition contender to launch street protests if he is denied the leadership by cheating.
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The liberal challenger in a closely fought  presidential election in Ukraine threatened on Friday to bring  his supporters onto the streets if the authorities tried to  deny him victory by cheating.
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Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko warned tonight that âforcesâ are preparing to disrupt Boxing Dayâs presidential election re-run.
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Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko warned a rally of thousands of his supporters in frigid central Kiev on Wednesday that forces were planning to disrupt the rerun of the presidential runoff.