Ukraine may be about to join a bold new political experiment

Published November 24, 2004

Even as Russian President Vladimir Putin was congratulating newly-elected Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, a group of international observers were describing Sunday's Ukraine vote as severely flawed.

The Guardian newspaper reported that Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, said in Kiev that there had been "a concerted and forceful program of election-day...