Well, I just finished reading
this article over at the NYT about the presidential election in Ukraine.
It seems that the exit polls showed the opposition candidate, the Western-friendly Viktor Yushchenko, winning fairly convincingly. But the official tally gave the Kremlin-leaning PM, Viktor Yanukovich, the victory.
Abuses cited by the observer mission led by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe included "inaccurate voter lists and overt bias of state-funded media."
Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), who led a smaller US observer mission, said, "A concerted and forceful program of election day fraud and abuse was enacted with either the leadership or cooperation of governmental authorities."
This all sounds so... familiar.
Except for one thing: Yushchenko is refusing to acknowledge defeat, and the Ukrainian people are in the streets in Kiev.