Ukraine stands on brink of unknown

[Rhiannon12866]

The jeep swerved when an egg hit its passenger window. A man dressed in black leant into the driver's window and screamed: 'Go home!'. Terrified, the driver sped on, into a road strewn with nails.

It was the moment that opposition supporters, driving round Ukraine as part of a 'Friendship Tour', hoped would never happen. As they crossed the country for 10 days, trying to promote the 'Orange Revolution' that enveloped Kiev during 16 days of electoral crisis, they had received a warm welcome even in Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk, cities renowned for supporting Viktor Yanukovich, some of whose supporters have been accused of trying to steal the presidential election. Today, that election will be run again.

But a mile from the eastern industrial stronghold of Donetsk, Yanukovich's home town, their peaceful protest was met with violence. Two hundred cars bearing the blue-and-white flags of the Yanukovich campaign blocked the turning to the city centre. Three students in a Lada car said they had come on their own initiative. One said: 'I've been to Kiev. I know Viktor Yuschenko paid students to protest for him.' He said a Yuschenko presidency would set the economy back four years.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1379790,00.html

[aikido15]

1. Sounds like America...

very divisive.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Yes, it certainly does, but the odd thing is, from what I've heard,

it's the defeated candidate, Yuschenko, was also most certainly poisoned, who was the Bush* cabal's choice to win. Very strange.:crazy: