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This 3 page paper is a critic of the article "The Orange Revolution" by Adrian Karatnycky, that appeared in "Foreign Affairs." Bibliography lists 1 source.
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the piece. Discussion Karatnyckys article is a detailed account of the November 2004 presidential election in Ukraine, in which the Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovich, was defeated by the opposition candidate,
Viktor Yushchenko.1 Although the article is straightforward, describing the electoral process, the election itself was complex, difficult and riddled with corruption, and ended only because Yushchenko declared himself president.2 According
to the article, he was clearly the peoples choice, but Yanukovich used every dirty trick in the book to try and "steal" the contest.3 Karatnycky begins his article with a
description of the scene in Kiev on the evening of November 22, when thousands of people gathered in Independence Square and began chanting "Razom nas bahato! Nas ne podolaty!" ("Together,
we are many! We cannot be defeated!")4 This "mantra," as he calls it, "signaled the rise of a powerful civic movement, a skilled political opposition group, and a determined middle
class that had come together to stop the ruling elite from falsifying an election and hijacking Ukraines presidency."5 This is his thesis and the subject of the article: describing the
tactics Yanukovich used to try and steal the election; how Yushchenko thwarted that attempt; what now faces the new Ukrainian president and how the West reacted. Anyone who
reads the piece will probably be strongly reminded of some of the strong-arm tactics of the Republicans in Florida. Karatnycky says that exit polls did not match the votes that
were eventually counted; and that there were sudden surges in the number of votes cast in those areas that favored Yanukovich: "The eastern Donetsk region--Yanukovichs home base--went from a voter
turnout of 78 percent to 96.2 percent overnight, with support for Yanukovich at around 97 percent. In neighboring Luhansk, turnout magically climbed from 80 percent at the time the polls
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