American Association of political consultants has recognized Viktor Yushchenko’s election campaign as “the best international campaign of the year” and gave it the highest annual prize ‘Polly’.
President of the Association, Vain Johnson, claimed that Viktor Yushchenko has become the first foreign politician, whose election campaign won such a high award. V. Johnson acknowledged that American political consultants drawn there attention on events in Ukraine only with the beginning of remonstrance against elections’ falsification. According to expert, it was the campaign’s success that compelled members of the Association to reward Yushchenko’s campaign.
V. Johnson stated that this was the way how the Association wanted to gave a due rewarding of “the Ukrainian’s brave struggle, who were able to achieve democracy, no mater how hard it was for them”.