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Wednesday, January 19, 2005

BREAKING NEWS ~ Ukraine Supreme Court rejects last Yanukovych election appeal
Bernard Hibbitts at 8:37 PM ET

[JURIST] AP is reporting that the Ukrainian Supreme Court has rejected a last appeal by losing candidate Viktor Yanukovych against the December 26 presidential election result. The decision definitively clears the way for formal publication of the election results in the official Holos Ukrainy and Uryadovyi Kuryer newspapers. The Maidan civic advocacy website in Kyiv offers a log of Wednesday's Ukraine Supreme Court session [in Ukrainian]. Maidan also reports that winning candidate Viktor Yushchenko's inauguration as president will likely take place Satursday, January 22.






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