By YURAS KARMANAU, Associated Press Writer
KIEV, Ukraine - Supporters of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko reconsidered plans to travel to his opponent's eastern stronghold after a tense standoff, and a U.S. congressional delegation arrived in Ukraine Saturday to press for fairness in the Dec. 26 runoff election.
Meanwhile, a top security agency official whose house was pinpointed by Yushchenko as the probable site of his poisoning denied any involvement in slipping the opposition leader a dose of the toxic chemical dioxin.
Dozens of angry ethnic Russian supporters of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych staged a blockade late Friday as the convoy — some 50 cars draped with Yushchenko's orange colors and carrying mostly artists and musicians touring the country to campaign for the opposition leader — sought to cross onto the Crimean peninsula, said convoy coordinator Olga Khodovanets.
Yushchenko's backers then traveled on to the Crimean capital Simferopol, where they showed videos and photos of the massive opposition protests that swept the capital Kiev for two weeks after Yanukovych, Ukraine's Prime Minister, was declared the winner of the first runoff vote on Nov. 21.
Yushchenko won a Supreme Court ruling that threw out results of that election because of fraud and ordered a repeat vote Dec. 26.
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