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A 12 page paper that provides background and information about the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004 immediately following the presidential election. The causes for this Revolution ware reported and discussed, including the fraud and attacks on Yushchenko. The essay also discusses some of the events that have happened in Ukraine since that time and where the country is politically today. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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(Karatnycky, 2005; Quinn-Judge and Zarakhovich, November, 2004). Neither candidate gained more than 50 percent of the vote in regular election, necessitating this runoff (Karatnycky, 2005). It was November 22 when
a rather well-organized group of persons numbering in the hundreds of thousands, rose in protest against the shenanigans of the government (Karatnycky, 2005). The group congregated at Independence Square in
Kiev, chanting: "Razom nas bahato! Nas ne podolaty!" (Karatnycky, 2005, p. 35). Translation: "Together, we are many! We cannot be defeated!" (Karatnycky, 2005, p. 35). The protests lasted for 17
days, during freezing cold and sleet and people stayed to participate in these nonviolent demonstrations, in many different parts of the country, of their dissatisfaction with the events of the
election (Karatnycky, 2005). They wore orange and the protest became known as the "Orange Revolution" (Karatnycky, 2005). The color orange was used because it was the color of "Yushchenkos Our
Ukraine party" (Quinn-Judge and Zarakhovich, November, 2004). The people had had enough and they had gained the will and the strength to demand changes. It was something the world had
never seen in Ukraine but demonstrations beginning in the 1980s in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Serbia and Georgia had been successful (Karatnycky, 2005). The people were showing they had power and
they would use it with the world watching as the events were broadcast on television and reading about it in other media (Karatnycky, 2005). The total number of people involved
was in the millions (Karatnycky, 2005). Viktor Yushchenko was subsequently declared president but by that time, "the Orange Revolution had set a major new landmark in the post communist history
of eastern Europe" (Karatnycky, 2005, p. 35). It was another victory for the people, one that was not expected or anticipated (Karatnycky, 2005). The people became resolute when election fraud
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