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Old 12-26-2004, 11:48 AM
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Exclamation Ukraine Holds Presidential Vote a 3rd Time

By NATASHA LISOVA, Associated Press Writer

KIEV, Ukraine - Rival candidates Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych faced off Sunday in a repeat election that all sides hoped would resolve Ukraine's fiercely waged presdential contest after fraud wrecked one vote and prompted massive protests that deeply divided the nation. _

The vote is momentous for Ukraine, a nation of 48 million people caught between an eastward-expanding European Union (news - web sites) and an increasingly assertive Russia, its former imperial and Soviet-era master.

At the protest tent camp in Kiev that the opposition has maintained for over a month, hundreds of Yushchenko supporters were confident the vote would bring victory.

"Soon no more of this," said Valeriy Demyanenko, a 55-year-old who came from southern Ukraine to join the tent camp, as he sipped his morning coffee.

The rest of this story is here: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...raine_election
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