STATEMENTS REGARDING UKRAINE'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

W. K. Lypynsky East European Research Institute

Following is the text of a statement released on December 1 by the W.K. Lypynsky East European Research Institute.

The board of directors of the W.K. Lypynsky East European Research Institute in Philadelphia wishes to express its condemnation of the falsification of the results of the second round of the presidential elections on November 21, 2004. We commend the courage and the fortitude of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who have persevered in the streets of many cities in bitter cold and snow in the protest against the violation of basic democratic principles and of the civil rights of voters.

We are expressing our solidarity with the members of the academic community, with the professors and students who have joined the protest. We are confident that the fraudulent elections will be annulled and that democracy and justice will prevail in Ukraine.

- I. Mazepa, president

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

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