Election Results (Sort of)

So, Ukraine had its election on the last Sunday of March, and to my knowledge (as I asked students every day) there has been no winner officially announced, but it looks like Yanacovich won (with soemthing like 30%). Yulia is next followed by Yushchenko's bloc, and then the Socialists (Moroz) and then the Commies.

But here is where things get weird:

My students told me that there is still a chance that Yulia could win by Наша Ukraina and her bloc joining forces. However, my students also pointed out that there is alos a chance that Party of Regions and Наша Ukraina could join, which again, blows my used-to-American-politics-mind. That's as if after Kerry lost, the Democrats decide, "well, f*** it, let's support Bush too," because it seems that people view Yanacovich and Yushchenko as political opposites, even enemies (I mean for goodness sake, Yushchenko was poisoned by someone).

I'm sure if there hasn't been already, there might be soem stuff in the news about it, if Belarus's business isn't hogging up the Eastern Europe scene in the news.

Life has seemed to settle down and back to normal. No more flag waving. No more billboards. No more tents. The election is over, so it's back to business as usual.