Quotable notes

"It can't be a coincidence that if the Ukrainian election is settled in Moscow's favor, it will mark the third such dubious vote in Russia's 'sphere of influence" in the past two months, following polls in Belarus and the separatist province of Abkhazia, not counting the irregularities that were belatedly uncovered in the election of Putin himself."

- Anne Applebaum, writing in the November 24 issue of The Washington Post.

"These elections meet only the standards of autocrats from Moscow."

- November 26 editorial from The Wall Street Journal Europe.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December 5, 2004, No. 49, Vol. LXXII

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