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Viktor Yanukovych's inauguration in Ukraine to be Feb. 25

Yuras Karmanau, Simon Shuster AP 02/15/2010

Pro-Russia Viktor Yanukovych named winner of Ukraine vote

SIMON SHUSTER and YURAS KARMANAU AP 02/14/2010
Viktor Yanukovych's inauguration in Ukraine to be Feb. 25

KIEV, Ukraine — Viktor Yanukovych will be inaugurated Feb. 25 as the new president of Ukraine despite Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's challenges to the election, a party official said Monday.

Pro-Russia Viktor Yanukovych named winner of Ukraine vote

KIEV, Ukraine — Election officials named Russia-friendly Viktor Yanukovych as the official winner of Ukraine's presidential election Sunday, thwarting Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's hopes of overturning the vote.

Opposition Leader Declares Victory in Ukraine

CLIFFORD J. LEVY The New York Times 02/08/2010

Ukraine's Tymoshenko revels as rival shuns TV clash

Dmitry Solovyov Reuters 02/01/2010
Opposition Leader Declares Victory in Ukraine

KIEV, Ukraine — The opposition leader Viktor F. Yanukovich appeared on Monday to have won a narrow victory in Ukraine’s presidential election, according to nearly complete results, giving him an unlikely comeback from his humiliating defeat in the 2004 Orange Revolution, when he was shunned as a bumbling Kremlin sidekick.

Ukraine's Tymoshenko revels as rival shuns TV clash

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko relished a solo performance on television on Monday, heaping insults on arch foe Viktor Yanukovich after he shunned a prime-time debate with her ahead of a presidential run-off on February 7.

Yanukovych earns initial win in Ukraine president's race

Former prime minister Viktor Yanukovych led in Sunday's Ukrainian presidential election by a solid margin, but not enough to win outright, according to almost-completed ballot counts made public Monday. The pro-business politician had received 35.3 per cent of ballots cast, after more than 90 per cent of ballots cast had been counted by Central Election Committee (CEC) officials.

Ukraine expected to elect 'Russian candidate’

Ukraine is expected to elect as president the man favoured by Vladimir Putin as it abandons its flirtation with the West to return to Russia’s sphere of influence.