If only 1/6 are ethnic Russians, how did Yanukovych win?
It’s spelled C-O-R-R-U-P-T E-L-E-C-T-I-O-N.
(Sorry...trying to be funny in a situation that certainly isn’t.)
>>If only 1/6 are ethnic Russians, how did Yanukovych win?<<
Another 2.5/6 Ukrainians are symphatizers.
Only 13% of the population of the US is black. How did Obama win?
On February 14, Viktor Yanukovych, with 48.95% of the popular vote, was declared President-elect and winner of the 2010 Ukrainian Presidential election. Yulia Tymoshenko won 45.47% of the vote.
A joint poll conducted by Democratic Initiatives and Ukrainian Sociology Service of January 2010 showed that less than 5% of the polled believed that the presidential election would be fair with 41.4% of respondents that believed that the election results could be manipulated and 15.7% being certain that the entire vote would be rigged. According to the same poll 5.8% of those polled stated they were ready to sell their votes if the sum suited them and 1.9% of the respondents were ready to sell their votes for any presidential candidates and for any funds.
Since May 2010 a number of criminal cases have been brought against Yulia Tymoshenko. On June 24, 2011, a trial started in the “gas case,” concerning a contract with Russian gas company Gazprom to supply natural gas to Ukraine, which had been signed in 2009. Tymoshenko was charged with abuse of power and embezzlement, as the allegedly biased court found the deal anti-economic for the country and abusive. On 11 October 2011, a Ukrainian court sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison after she was found guilty of all charges. Following the February 2014 Euromaidan riots, on 21 February 2014, Parliament voted for her release in a 310-54 veto-proof vote. On Saturday 22 February 2014 she was released. After her release Tymoshenko is now able to run for office, since she has no criminal record.
Tymoshenko was held in the Kharkiv-based Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 under police surveillance, where since May 2012 she had been receiving treatment after being diagnosed with a spinal disc herniation. Tymoshenko has been on three hunger strikes since her imprisonment.
The “gas case” trial was viewed by many international organizations, such as the Danish Helsinki Committee, as a politically-charged persecution that violates the law. The European Union and other international organizations see the conviction as "justice being applied selectively under political motivation." The European Union has shelved the European Union Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with Ukraine over the issue. The EU has repeatedly called for release of Yulia Tymoshenko as a primary condition for signing the EU Association Agreement. The European Court on Human Rights stated in April 2013 that Tymoshenko’s arrest in the case had been politically motivated and her rights had been violated.
“ACORN” voters, dead voters, ballot box stuffing, etc. ?
Same way obama won.
I guess they voted early and voted often.