Ukraine election - So much for "cleaner" orange revolution

[podnoi]

Anyone who has been following the "Ornge revolution" has seen that it has not fulfilled the promises it presumed. I had posted during the election that the situation was being propagandized to some extent in the election two years ago, and that election fraud and abuse occurred in both halves of the country, by Yushenko's backers as well as the opposition (I have relatives there).

At this time President Yushenko is not nearly so popular now, and they had a "mid-term" election yesterday. As happened my relatives, who live in the "Russian" half of the country, experienced ballot tampering and many were disinfranchised. In Crimea, where the population speaks Russian, many names were once again lost. Candidates names were translated to Ukrainian and older russions could not recognize them, lines were so long people turned back. And these folks are used to long lines and waiting hours to vote so they must have been really long.

I am posting this only to emphasize that the red hat's and white hats are not so easy to distinguish. We hear about the "white hat" orange revolution because that is who the US establishment backed, and not the reality of politics in the country. Now half the country is disinfranchised, the "blue flags" are protesting in the capital because they are being mistreated for their language (they speak Russian and many do not understand Ukrainian. And they are feeling the full force of "International Bank" reform with it's inflations and disinfranchisement of the poor.

[Zynx]

1. I read Yuschenko has an approval rating of only 20% now.

That's astonishing.