http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/08/03/can-we-declare-the-orange-revolution-a-failure/ Media, blogs and my personal thoughts about Belarus' elections in 2006 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:48:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/08/03/can-we-declare-the-orange-revolution-a-failure/#comment-932 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:41:37 +0100 http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/08/03/can-we-declare-the-orange-revolution-a-failure/#comment-932 I don't think we need declare the Orange Revolution a failure. The revolution was about overturning falsified election results, and that happened. British observers who attended the latest elections said that the democratic credentials and nature of those elections in Ukraine were better than in the UK. Personally, I would prefer Yanukovich didn't become Prime Minister, but that's democracy. The Communists didn't immediately all disappear from the former Soviet and Soviet satellite states when democracy appeared either, and yet, at least in the satellite states, democracy is still robust. I'm not despondent yet. I don’t think we need declare the Orange Revolution a failure. The revolution was about overturning falsified election results, and that happened. British observers who attended the latest elections said that the democratic credentials and nature of those elections in Ukraine were better than in the UK. Personally, I would prefer Yanukovich didn’t become Prime Minister, but that’s democracy. The Communists didn’t immediately all disappear from the former Soviet and Soviet satellite states when democracy appeared either, and yet, at least in the satellite states, democracy is still robust. I’m not despondent yet.

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