"Celebrations were to culminate in a midnight appearance by Yushchenko, along with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. The Georgian leader's landslide election victory after the "rose revolution" a year ago inspired many activists in Ukraine."

"But Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, accused in the West of rights violations, said there was "no need to shout that Ukraine elected a pro-Western president. Ukraine elected a pro-Ukrainian president," he told BelTA news agency."
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