Democracy vindicated… somewhere else…

Ending over a month of massive street protests and the so-called Orange Revolution, opposition candidate Viktor Yuschenko claimed victory in the Ukrainian presidential election, capturing over 52% of Sunday’s vote. Naturally, his opponent, Victor Yanokovich, cried fraud, and vowed to fight on and take a challenge of his own to Ukraine’s Supreme Court.
International observers concluded that this round of elections was relatively clean (compared to the last one), and it appears most Ukrainians are accepting the results (as did the nearby authoritarian regime in Minsk… or is it Pinsk… Byelorusse… no, I think its Minsk… ancestral home of a branch of Familia-TD).
Yuschenko will now have his hands full (aside from dealing with Yanukovich and his Kremlin cronies, who more than likely, tried to murder him with dioxin poison), will have to keep Ukraine’s eastern ethnically Russian region in line, lest it try to secede or foment revolt. And Pooty Poot… can’t be happy.
Amazing outcome, assuming its finished (many protestors have vowed to stay in their tent cities until Yuschenko is safely sworn in and takes power). But at least somewhere, power to the people means something,, and crooks stealing elections are not brooked. Not here, of course. Somewhere else…