Ukraine

By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on February 10th, 2011

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By Neave Barker in Europe on February 6th, 2010
Photo from AFP
The last official day of campaigning in Ukraine was marked by two simultaneous rallies on squares at opposite ends of the same street.
 
In front of the golden domed cupolas of Saint Michael’s Monastery, Victor Yanukovich’s campaign team hosted a star-studded pop concert. A short distance away Yulia Tymoshenko had gathered her supporters in front of Saint Sophia Cathedral. Hers was a much more contemplative affair, an open air prayer service in the company of the country’s top clergy.
 
Both rival camps had rallied hundreds of cheering, flag-waving supporters. Some had been bussed in from the regions, many making the most of the free-day trip to the capital.
 
By Neave Barker in Europe on January 26th, 2010

It has been a bitterly fought presidential election in Ukraine.

 

The two frontrunners Victor Yanukovich and Yulia Tymoshenko have repeatedly accused each other of trying to rig the election in their favour.

 

By Rob Reynolds in Americas on June 24th, 2009

Anyone who has lived during the past half  century has watched many popular uprisings against authoritarian or fascist governments. Some, like the nearly miraculous collapse of East Germany and other Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe in 1989 or the ousters of Ferdinand Marcos from the Philippines  and Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier from Haiti in 1986, were successful and relatively peaceful. So were the more recent “color revolutions” in Georgia and Ukraine.

Others, like the “Prague Spring” of 1968, the Tiananmen Square events in Beijing in 1989, or the Shiite intifada in Southern Iraq in 1991, were blood-soaked failures.

Whether a popular movement succeeds in peaceful transfer of power or is brutally repressed depends entirely on the nerve of the regimes leadership and the loyalty of its enforcers, the security forces or army.

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