POLITICS
- an Réabhlóid Oráiste Reference Comhairle-GA
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- Orange Revolution | Orangene Revolution
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- Comment """Mit knallorangen Plakaten und Protestbannern erzwang eine zivile Protestbewegung in der Ukraine - Menschen aller Schichten, Berufe und Generationen - 2004 die Annullierung einer durch Wahlbetrug manipulierten Präsidentenwahl. Orange war die Farbe der Opposition, stand für Energie, und sollte sich klar vom Rot der kommunistischen Sowjet-Ära absetzen.(...)Die Farbe Orange wird immer die Farbe des Umsturzes in der Ukraine bleiben. Aber die Euphorie nach der Orangen Revolution von 2004 war nur von kurzer Dauer. Der politische Alltag mit Korruption, Machtmissbrauch und dem Ränkespiel skrupelloser Politikern war stärker als die Hoffnung auf mehr Demokratie."""
- Orange Revolution
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- Definition political events taking place in Ukraine in the autumn of 2004 in response to the presidential election in which Viktor Yanukovych was initially declared the winner, involving mass protests, a revolt by state media against government controls and a re-run of the election, which eventually led to the inauguration of Viktor Yuschenko in early 2005 Reference "COUNCIL-EN Encyclopedia Britannica, 'Ukraine', http://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/History#ref986649 [24.9.2015]"
- Comment The presidential election of 2004 brought Ukraine to the brink of disintegration and civil war. Cleared to seek a third term as president by the Constitutional Court, Kuchma instead endorsed the candidacy of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who was also strongly supported by Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin. Yushchenko—running on an anticorruption, anticronyism platform—emerged as the leading opposition candidate, but his campaign was prevented from visiting Yanukovych’s stronghold of Donetsk and other eastern cities. In September Yushchenko’s health began to fail, and medical tests later revealed he had suffered dioxin poisoning (allegedly carried out by the Ukrainian State Security Service), which left his face disfigured. In the first round of the presidential election, on October 31, Yushchenko and Yanukovych both won about two-fifths of the vote. In the runoff the following month, Yanukovych was declared the winner, though Yushchenko’s supporters charged fraud and staged mass protests that came to be known as the Orange Revolution. Protestors clad in orange, Yushchenko’s campaign colour, took to the streets, and the country endured nearly two weeks of demonstrations. Yanukovych’s supporters in the east threatened to secede from Ukraine if the results were annulled. Nevertheless, on December 3 the Supreme Court ruled the election invalid and ordered a new runoff for December 26. Yushchenko subsequently defeated Yanukovych by garnering some 52 percent of the vote. Although Yanukovych challenged the validity of the results, Yushchenko was inaugurated on January 23, 2005.
- Révolution orange
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- Definition série de manisfestations populaires qui se sont déclenchées en Ukraine en novembre 2004 à la suite de la proclamation du résultat du deuxième tour de l'élection présidentielle, perçu comme truqué Reference Conseil-FR