Neither the incumbent Mr. Yanukovich or the challenger Mr. Yuschenko has gotten more than 50% of the vote in Ukraine's presidential election, so they go to to a runoff on Nov. 21. Mr. Yanukovich is a semi-communist, and advocates political reunion with Russia. Mr. Yuschenko is a reformer, and advocates closer ties to the EU, NATO, and the West. There were around 24 contenders in the presidential election.
With 94.4% of precincts counted, pro-Kremlin Prime Minister Viktor
Yanukovych had 40.12% of the vote, and top opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko
had 39.15%, the Central Election Commission said Monday...turnout was about 75%.
For some reason ;) Ukraine's government is not publishing official results, describing the tally as "unofficial preliminary results."
My wife is visiting Ukraine right now. She says there's vibrant political activity all over the place in the capital Kiev, where her brother lives. They say people stayed up all night to vote in
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