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...fell grievously ill Sept. 5. "We have identified the cause. We suspect involvement of a third party." Yushchenko has no doubt about who that party is. He blames unnamed agents of the Ukrainian government (see interview), the same government that allowed rampant ballot stuffing to throw the Nov. 21 runoff election to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych - Yushchenko's opponent and President Leonid Kuchma's handpicked successor. Two weeks ago, Ukraine's Supreme Court voided that result and called a new vote for Dec. 26. Since then Yushchenko has continued to gain strength - he says he'll take...
...rerun of the second round may also produce nothing. What happens then? Will there have to be a third, a fourth, a 25th round until one of the sides obtains the necessary result?" VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, opposing a decision by the Ukrainian Supreme Court to hold a new runoff election between the two candidates for Ukraine's President, following allegations of fraud during the first balloting...
...commission uses a runoff system: if no candidate has received a majority of the votes in the race, the candidate with the fewest votes in that race will be eliminated...
...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 entered eastern DRC to track down Hutu rebels involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, despite earlier threats to do so. Heightened tensions have raised fears of a renewed war between...
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