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ilbe
on Jan 22, 2014
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“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a particip...
Ukraine is a democracy. Why not vote for the other guy next time? How does it make sense to go out and burn and break things instead.
eswat
on Jan 22, 2014
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Because it isn’t really a democracy; the amount of corruption hasn’t really changed at all since The Orange Revolution[1].
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution
ilbe
on Jan 22, 2014
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From that very article, "Yushchenko was declared the official winner and with his inauguration on 23 January 2005 in Kiev, the Orange Revolution ended." Democracy worked.
crpatino
on Jan 22, 2014
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I suppose you must come from a country where rampant corruption is the norm to understand what "declared the official winner" actually means.
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