Ukraine's Orange Revolution president Viktor Yushchenko has been beaten by his former ally Yulia Tymoshenko and pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych in parliamentary elections on Sunday (26 March), according to preliminary results.
Official results based on 7 percent of the votes counted on Monday morning say Ms Tymoshenko is leading with 24.9 percent, closely followed by Mr Yanukovich’ Regions Party on 23.1 percent, newswires report.
Mr Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine party came in ...
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