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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned that Ukraine's crisis over last week's disputed presidential election must be solved without foreign pressure, even as European envoys returned to Kiev for a second round of mediation.

Russia's Vladimir Putin has openly backed Yanukovych — and warned other nations not to interfere.

While it was delivered in a phone call with the German chancellor, Putin's message appeared aimed more at the United States, seen by the Kremlin as behind a campaign to install Ukraine's pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko at the helm of the nation Russia has always regarded as its main satellite.

But President Bush paid no heed: He urged a return to negotiations to settle the impasse over Ukraine's disputed election Tuesday and asked all sides to resolve the situation without violence.



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European Union Steps Up Efforts to End Ukrainian Vote Deadlock

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union intensified its efforts to resolve the crisis over Ukraine's disputed presidential election, with missions to Kiev by the presidents of Poland and Lithuania and EU foreign policy envoy Javier Solana.

Solana arrived yesterday for talks with outgoing President Leonid Kuchma. Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and Lithuania's Valdas Adamkus are due today. All three are on their second mission to the Ukrainian capital in less than a week.

Supporters of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko yesterday made an unsuccessful attempt to break into the Verkhovna Rada, or parliament. Yushchenko, 50, says Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, 53, took the lead in the Nov. 21 second round of voting only by massive electoral fraud.



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It is not the business of Washington or London or Ottawa to decide whether they accept the election results in the Ukraine. It is for the sovereign Ukrainian institutions to solve the process through the proper and existing legislative process, namely an examination of the complaints by the supreme court and the subsequent publishing of the results.

After this, the new President will be announced. It is a simple, clear process and the Ukrainians are capable of solving their own problems without outside interference from the countries who are dying to install Yushchenko, no doubt so that lucrative arms contracts can be delivered to NATO and military bases set up on Russia's borders.

Therefore the declaration by a number of western countries that they did not accept the result obtained by the Ukrainian Central Election Committee is ludicrous. What if the rest of the world tells the United States of America that it does not accept the result of the ballot in Ohio because it was rigged?

And who is Tony Blair to make any declarations, now that members of his own party wish to impeach him for gross misconduct in leading the country into an illegal act of butchery in Iraq baced on barefaced lies?

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