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The Supreme Court refused, on the complaint of presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych, to cancel the decision of the Central Election Commission recognizing presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko as the winner of the presidential election.
Victor Yushchenko, as president, is ready to cooperate with all political forces. He stated this today to journalists at the consecration of the Church of the Nativity of Christ in the Podilskyi district of Kyiv, reports "Hromadske Radio".

On Wednesday, January 12, 2005, a press conference was held in Lutsk on the topic: "Will the Orange Revolution in Volyn end with the lustration of old regime cadres?
People's Deputy of Ukraine Viktor Pinchuk does not intend to run for parliament in 2006 and to engage in political activity thereafter. Pinchuk stated this on Wednesday in an interview with journalists, reports a «proUA» correspondent.
As was established from unofficial sources, the instruction to hold an emergency extraordinary meeting of the SDPU(o) politburo was allegedly given by Viktor Medvedchuk himself when he learned that following a group of deputies, one of his closest associates, Petro Pysarchuk, had left the Social Democratic faction in…
The Head of the CEC announced the protocol on the results of the Ukrainian presidential election. According to them, 51.99% voted for Yushchenko, and 44.20% for Viktor Yanukovych.
POLITICS. The Central Election Commission has announced the official results of the 26 December vote in the single nationwide single-mandate constituency for the election of the President of Ukraine. Viktor YUSHCHENKO has been declared the winner of the election.

The Central Election Commission explains the impossibility of announcing the final results of the presidential elections earlier by the fact that this morning the Supreme Court of Ukraine will consider complaints from Viktor Yanukovych's authorized representatives about the commission's refusals to invalidate the…
"I assume that the new majority will have about 280 deputies. I am confident that the NAPU faction will be in the new majority," Yeremieiev said in an interview with the "Interfax-Ukraine" agency.
President Leonid Kuchma accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.