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Ukraine marks Orthodox Christmas with election saga end in sight
0 Comments | AFP, January, 2005
KIEV (AFP) — Ukraine celebrates Orthodox Christmas with the end of its election saga finally in sight, after a supreme court ruling paved the way for pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko to be inaugurated president of the ex-Soviet nation.
Hundreds of people were due to attend a Christmas concert on Kiev's central Independence Square, from where Yushchenko led the "orange revolution" that swept him to power and chased out the decade-old, Soviet-era regime of his predecessor Leonid Kuchma.
The majority of Ukrainians practise the Orthodox faith that uses the old Julian calendar in which Christmas falls 13 days after its more widespread Gregorian calendar counterpart on December 25.
This year's celebration comes a day after the supreme court threw out an appeal by...
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