Ukrainian presidential election, 2004 Viktor Yanukovych

the presidential election held in November and December 2004 in Ukraine was mostly a political battle between then Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and former Prime Minister and opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko. The election was held in a highly charged atmosphere, with allegations of media bias, intimidation, and even a poisoning of Yushchenko that was later confirmed to be the result of the poison dioxin.

According to official Central Election Commission results announced on November 23, the election was won by Yanukovych, but Yushchenko and his supporters, as well as many international observers, denounced the election as rigged. This led to a serious political crisis, widespread acts of civil disobedience, dubbed the "Orange Revolution", which eventually led to the Ukrainian Supreme Court annulling the results and ordering a repeat of the second round.

The second vote was re-run on December 26. Observers reported a much fairer vote, and Viktor Yushchenko won with about 52% of the vote, to Yanukovych's 44%. Yushchenko was eventually declared the winner on January 10, 2005 after the failure of a legal action brought by Yanukovych.

Candidates

The two major contenders were Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko. Yanukovych, Ukrainian prime minister since 2002, was supported by the out-going President Leonid Kuchma, as well as Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin.

Yushchenko on the other hand, was considered more pro-Western, and enjoyed the support of the European Union and the United States.

In total, there were 26 candidates to the presidency, with other candidates receiving much fewer votes than the two leaders.

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what's going on in Ukraine today? - IMF, World financial mafia (as they do it everywhere in the World, - in Island, Greece, Portugal, Ireland, and so on...) corrupt local polititians and made with them funny schemes, then they impose on country insane debt which they want to collect from our small enterpreneurs and other defenseless people!

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