the two major candidates western backed victoria yuschenko and russian leaning victoriano cove each almost equally shared the votes of ukrainians by the way calling viktor yuschenko western backed is not an exaggeration. his wife catherine yuschenko is a former u.s. state department official and worked in the white house during the reagan administration the division was a long geographic lines traditionally russian eastern ukraine voted for young age while wes. turn ukraine chose use janko by the announced result viktor yuschenko lost a victory on a co-feature but thousands of people didn't agree with it and they came to the central square of kiev on the twenty second of november. the situation received wide news coverage the country's election commission ignored reports of fraud declaring kremlin backed victory the winner international politicians such as former general secretary of nato. became frequent guests in kiev initiating negotiations between parties in a full thirty odd with a colleague be able to get. the results of the negotiations however were often reached only on paper thus