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...each case, Otpor coordinator Sinisa Sikman told TIME, Otpor taught local students organization and negotiation skills, street-protest tactics, and how to "monitor the elections so that they could fight fraud." News of Otpor's interest in the Ukraine vote - and the fact that the group received funding from the U.S. government as well as dozens of other private and non-American donors - drew alarmed speculation on Russian state TV that the group is an American tool agitating for regime change "on the doorstep of Russia...
...Military Might BOSNIA The E.U.'s defense force, EUFOR, took over NATO's peacekeeping duties at a formal handover ceremony in Sarajevo. It is EUFOR's biggest mission since its formation last year. More Fraud? ROMANIA The government denied allegations of fraud in the Nov. 28 presidential and parliamentary elections. The ruling Social Democratic Party won the most votes, but not an outright majority. Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and the center-right Justice and Truth Alliance's Traian Basescu face a runoff vote for President on Dec. 12. Neighborhood Dispute DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Kigali denied reports that its troops...
...madness that makes the post-2000 election battle in the United States look comparatively mellow. Official results show Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich winning by 3 percent over challenger Viktor Yushchenko, but Yushchenko has asked Ukraine’s Supreme Court for a new election in light of voting fraud. And, although the exact nature of the fraud is unclear, its extent appears to be substantial. Whatever the eventual outcome of the election, we hope that all factions abide by and respect the court’s ruling, since the integrity of both Ukraine’s fledgling democracy...
...officials angry with Kofi Annan? The U.N. Secretary-General is not accused of wrongdoing, but he refuses to compel U.N. employees to testify before U.S. congressional committees investigating the fraud, angering Senators of both parties. Annan appointed Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, to lead a U.N. investigation of the program. Volcker says separate congressional inquiries would impede his work. Investigators are also looking into Cotecna, a Swiss contractor for which Annan's son Kojo worked as a consultant...
...year ago, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a billionaire who built Yukos into an energy powerhouse, was arrested and put on trial for alleged fraud and tax evasion, charges he says were trumped up. Since then, Yukos has been hit with a $24 billion bill for back taxes, and the government announced in November that it will auction off the company's most valuable subsidiary, Yugansk Oil & Gas, on Dec. 19 to pay the tax bill - a move Yukos ceo Steven Theede lambasted as "government-organized theft to settle a political score." The Kremlin set the starting price for the auction...