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...presenter started to read the news," Dmitruk tells TIME, "I said, 'I address all deaf viewers. Yushchenko is our President. Do not believe the Electoral Commission. They are lying.'" In a week filled with remarkable acts of political protest, Dmitruk's silent rebellion was one of the most defiant...
While Yushchenko's voters celebrated in Kiev and the West, a wave of rallies rolled through Yanukovych strongholds in the east to protest what people there saw as a stolen election. Political leaders, defiant of Kiev's authority, angrily rejected the decision to hold another poll and called for the creation of a new autonomous region. Some even threatened to join eastern Ukraine with Russia. The electoral impasse could crack the country along the acute cultural and political rifts that divide it. "We are dealing with a deep split in the country," says Andrzej Zalucki, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs...
...dark suits and ties, addressing scores of Western executives in flawless English about the country's new business opportunities. A few feet away is a huge portrait of the most famous face in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, in his trademark African robe and sunglasses, fist in the air, a defiant look on his face, as if to say to the roomful of businessmen, I still run things around here. But the businessmen don't seem to notice. Instead they are transfixed by a tall young man with wire-rimmed spectacles and a fashionably shaved head. When he talks about...
...fact, just ask anyone—coach, player, and referee, apparently—and you’ll begin to realize one thing: Brian Edwards is exhilarating on the field, jovial off it, and defiant of convention...
...after a series of drudge jobs, including a stint in a heater factory, Taha hooked up with a quartet - three of whom were fellow ethnic Arabs - in a Lyons suburb and formed Carte de Séjour (Green Card). Though the band's gritty garage sound and defiant Arabic lyrics about racism, immigration and social injustice won it a healthy club following, French radio stations shunned the group. "I knew DJs who were told by bosses to 'Lose the Arab records - now,'" Taha recalls...