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deviant ART [http://www.deviantart.com/] Browse Shop Chat News Today Forum Username: Password: login or Not a member? Become a Deviant! Lost Password? No More Ads: Subscribe to deviantART Now ~ ukraine ukraine Profile Gallery Faves Journal Advertisement Yushchenko wins! Journal Entry: Mon Dec 27, 2004, 7:46 AM Yushchenko wins Ukraine election Viktor Yushchenko claims victory in the presidential poll! Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has won the re-run of Ukraine's troubled presidential election by a clear margin, election officials say. With more than 98% of votes counted, the pro-Western leader is eight points ahead of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych following Sunday's vote. International observers from the OSCE monitoring watchdog said the re-run was much fairer than the earlier rounds. The original vote, won by Mr Yanukovych last month, was annulled due to fraud. "The Ukrainian people have won," Mr Yushchenko told a jubilant crowd waving orange flags in central Kiev. There may still be legal challenges from Mr Yanukovych, who favours closer ties with Russia and enjoys strong support in Ukraine's industrial east. Sunday's re-run was monitored by 12,000 international observers. 1 Comment Klichko & Shevchenko Journal Entry: Tue Dec 14, 2004, 12:44 AM Vitali Klitschko made one statement with his fists, and another with his words. Both came through loud and clear in a dominating title defense that elevated him to the top of a crowded list of heavyweight champions. Klitschko staked his claim to being the true heavyweight champion Saturday night, knocking Danny Williams down four times and giving him a savage beating before finally stopping him in the eighth round. He then dedicated the win to democracy in his native Ukraine, where he planned to head Sunday to support the opposition presidential candidate. "I feel this was the best performance of my career," Klitschko said. "But this victory was not just for me, but also for democracy in the Ukraine." Klitschko retained his WBC heavyweight title in a lopsided fight that left Williams bloodied, battered and barely able to see. Ukrainian AC Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko won the Golden Ball award as Europe's best soccer player Monday, edging club teammate Ronaldinho and Barcelona midfielder Deco. "I would like to thank all the people who have helped me win it and I would like to dedicate the Golden Ball to the people of Ukraine," Shevchenko told Canal Plus television. "I am Ukrainian and proud to be. It is hard to talk about the situation in Ukraine, but the people deserve a democracy." The winner was chosen in France Football magazine's annual poll of journalists. Shevchenko, 28, has scored 11 goals in 15 Italian league games this season for second-place Milan. He scored 24 goals last season. Shevchenko received 175 points, Portugal's Deco got 139, and Brazil's Ronaldinho 133. France's Thierry Henry was fourth, followed by Greece's Theodoros Zagorakis. Last year, Shevchenko finished fourth behind Pavel Nedved. He's the third Ukrainian to win the award, after Oleg Blokhin in 1975 and Igor Belanov in 1986, and the seventh Milan player. Shevchenko has helped unbeaten Ukraine lead its 2006 World Cup qualifying group with 11 points from five matches and scored twice in a 3-0 win away to Turkey in November. He totals 24 goals in 56 internationals. No Comments Ukraine court annuls poll result Journal Entry: Fri Dec 3, 2004, 9:01 AM Ukraine's Supreme Court has annulled the second round of the presidential election - upholding opposition claims that it was fraudulent. Presiding judge Anatoly Yarema said a new vote must be held by 26 December. Supporters of the pro-Western candidate Viktor Yushchenko broke into cheers as the verdict was announced. The court told the election commisssion to organise the re-run between Mr Yushchenko and the pro-Moscow Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The commission had declared Mr Yanukovych the winner. The prime minister and the outgoing President Leonid Kuchma had pressed for a completely new election. But both sides in this conflict have said they will abide by the court's decision, which is final. TAK 4 Comments Ukraine's poll drama Journal Entry: Wed Nov 24, 2004, 3:32 AM Ukraine has not experienced the kind of intense political dramas seen in Russia and some of the other former Soviet states in the last 15 years, but now its turn may have come. An election widely regarded as falsified, thousands of people on the streets, the official result rejected by a number of cities, parliament going into emergency session - it is a unique situation and no-one can tell how it will end. The closest parallel is the series of massive anti-government demonstrations in 2000 and 2001, following the murder of the opposition journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Then, the largest political demonstrations the country had ever seen shook the government, but it did not fall. Eventually the protests died away. Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition leader whom the demonstrators regard as the real victor of the election, does not on past record have the same driving ambition as his Georgian counterpart, Mikhail Saakashvili. Protests in Kiev's main square Parliamentary political alliances could sway the outcome He is a banker, rather than a daring political animal with a burning sense of mission. It is not easy to envisage him storming buildings with his supporters, as Mr Saakashvili did. Whether the political head of steam continues to build behind Mr Yushchenko will also depend on the parliament, where his supporters and those of Mr Yanukovych are roughly evenly balanced. All eyes are currently on the speaker of parliament, Volodymyr Lytvyn, whose Agrarian Party is theoretically allied with the so-called Majority supporting Mr Yanukovych, but could, it is thought, end up on Mr Yushchenko's side. The other key players in the post-election drama are the courts. Many complaints about alleged election irregularities have already been registered. "There is a possibility that the results from about 40 polling stations, mainly in the east and south of the country, will end up being cancelled," says Svetlana Dorozh, head of the BBC Ukrainian Service's Kiev bureau. "People are talking about two million votes that have allegedly been falsified. It's enough, theoretically, to turn the election into a victory for Victor Yushchenko." There is no doubt that the courts will be conscious of the huge public demonstrations of support for Mr Yushchenko as they consider these complaints. They will also be aware, however, of the risks involved in crossing the men who have run Ukraine for the last few years - with the support of the country's most powerful and ruthless business tycoons. Stephen Mulvey, BBC News 14 Comments INDEPENDENCE DAY of Ukraine Journal Entry: Tue Aug 24, 2004, 1:06 PM Shanovni spivvitchiznyky! Vitaemo Vas z Dnem Nezalezhnosti Ukrainy!!! Bazhaemo Vam samostiynosti, ekonimichnoyi stabilnosti, prozvitannya ta tvor4ogo nathnennya!!! Slava Ukrayini! Na viky slava!!! 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