December 27, 2004, 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...
Comments
I don't think most people in eastern Ukraine think of themselves as ethnic Russians, but rather as Russian speaking Ukrainians (Crimea, not historically part of Ukraine, and maybe Khirkiv excepted).
Doesn't make the situation there any better, but as long as we want to be accurate
Posted by Michael Farris at December 28, 2004 10:33 AM
Excellent point.
However, I suspect that while most Ukrainians speak Russian (at least CAN speak Russian), though I think there are a fair number of people who think of themselves AS ethnic Russians in the Ukraine (yes, Crimea region to be sure... and others, and my limited understanding is that a fair amount of them are in the Eastern Ukraine), just as there are ethnic Russians strewn throughout the now newly independent former Soviet Republics, from Talinn to Tajikshstan.
Just part of the equation that Yuschenko will have to try to solve.
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