ArmenPress
Dec 27 2004

UKRAINIANS IN ARMENIA VOTE FOR YANUKOVICH

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS: The Ukrainian embassy in Yerevan
told Armenpress that out of 213 Ukrainian citizens, living in Armenia
who were eligible to vote in Sunday’s repeat presidential election
only 101 came to the embassy on Sunday to take part in the third
round pf presidential election.
The embassy said around 71 percent of them voted for the acting
prime minister Victor Yanukovich and 23 percent for opposition leader
Viktor Yuschenko.
According to the latest figures from Ukraine, the opposition
leader Viktor Yushchenko has an unassailable lead in a re-run of
Ukraine’s rigged presidential election with more than 90 percent of
the vote counted. Election officials in Kiev said with 96.52 percent
of the ballot counted, Yushchenko had won 53.97 percent compared with
42.25 percent for Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich.
By the way, it appeared that the opposition presidential candidate
Viktor Yuschenko, lived for some time in Nagorno Karabagh, when a
child, where his father, a Soviet Army officer, served.