In the 2004 Ukraine presidential election votes were stolen from candidate Viktor Yushchenko is order to put Viktor Yanukovich ahead of the polls. This eventually became known to the public and thousands gathered in 'Kiev' square to protest the atrocities. Votes were recounted despite several threats made to the supreme court and Yushchenko came out the clear winner. Now 4 years later "The president of Ukraine, Viktor A. Yushchenko, asserted that he was the victim of a “political and constitutional coup” carried out by his ally, Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko, and threatened to call for early parliamentary elections." One of the points of interest in Enlightenment was that the government would not hide things from it's people and tell them everything. Ukraine has been very sketchy in the sense of revealing/hiding information from it's people.
New York Times
Ukraine Government New Collapse
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