Official tallies from Ukraine’s presidential election show Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko losing by over 3 percent. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has congratulated her opponent, and the United States has hailed the election as another step in democratizing Ukraine.
But Tymoshenko has not been heard from in two days and has privately vowed to fight the results.
True to her fighting nature, Tymoshenko told party officials that she will “never recognize the legitimacy of [Viktor] Yanukovich’s victory,” according to the Ukrainskaya Pravda website.
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