[Mb-civic] Ukraine Premier Won't Accept Defeat

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Ukraine Premier Won't Accept Defeat 
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Yanukovich says he is challenging the results of the presidential vote. He also rejects demands that he heed lawmakers' call to leave office.

By David Holley
Times Staff Writer

December 30 2004

KIEV, Ukraine — Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich remained defiant in the face of apparent defeat Wednesday, pressing a legal effort to overturn results showing he lost Ukraine's recent presidential election and rejecting opposition demands that he leave office in line with an early-December parliamentary vote of no confidence. 

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