Ukraine declares Kremlin-backed candidate president
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Ignoring stern warnings from US and European leaders, the Ukrainian government Wednesday declared the country&#39;s Kremlin-backed candidate the victor in Sunday&#39;s widely
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Outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma  gained Vladimir Putin's backing Thursday against calls for a  quick re-run of the last round of the disputed presidential  election the opposition is certain it would win.
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Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in Sunday as president of Ukraine, completing his "Orange Revolution" after weeks of political turmoil in which he defeated the Kremlin-backed candidate at the polls and survived a mysterious poisoning plot.
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Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in Sunday as president of Ukraine, completing his "Orange Revolution" after weeks of political turmoil in which he defeated the Kremlin-backed candidate at the polls and survived ...
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Ukraine election officials were set to officially declare Viktor Yushchenko winner of a presidential rerun vote, paving the way for the "orange revolution" hero to be sworn in as the third president of an independent Ukraine.
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GROZNY, Russia  - The Kremlin's favoured candidate for president of war-battered Chechnya overwhelmingly won an election that opponents claimed was riddled with fraud, Russian news agencies reported Monday citing preliminary results.
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Election officials declared Wednesday that Kremlin-backed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych won Ukraine&#39;s bitterly disputed presidential runoff balloting, sharpening a crisis sparked by the opposition candidate&#39;s allegations that the
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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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Russia has apparently become the central theme of the presidential election in Ukraine.
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Viktor Yanukovych, the Kremlin-backed candidate in Ukraine's presidential elections, rose to prominence as governor of the eastern Donetsk coal-mining and industrial region before President Leonid Kuchma ...
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Ukrainian opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko greets supporters from a stage at a mass rally in downtown Kiev, Monday, Nov. 29, 2004.
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With virtually all votes counted, Viktor A. Yushchenko, the opposition leader, was Ukraine&#39;s presumptive president-elect on Monday.
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Ukraine's new president elect, Viktor Yushchenko, will be sworn in as president on Sunday, January 23.
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The outgoing Ukrainian president reversed himself yesterday and endorsed holding new elections to end the country&#39;s political chaos and establish a &quot;legitimate&quot; leader.
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Ukraine&#39;s Central Elections Commission declared Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the winner of the country&#39;s bitterly disputed presidential vote Wednesday
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Government candidate Viktor Yanukovych is declared the winner of Ukraine's election in a result rejected by the US.
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Ukrainians Sunday began choosing a new president in a landmark poll offering a choice between the ex-Soviet state's prime minister, backed by Russia, and a liberal rival seeking gradual integration with the ...