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...leader, has raised concerns of a possible return to more authoritarian rule were she to win. But Oleh Rybachuk, a former chief of staff to Yushchenko and a Deputy Prime Minister in Tymoshenko's government says that while Ukrainians may want a strong leader, they won't allow a politician to curtail their freedoms. "Ukraine is not Russia," he says. (See the top 10 news stories...
...revolution may be that no one can predict the winner of a campaign fought in the glare of the media, unlike recent one-horse races in neighboring Russia and Belarus. Both claim the other will try to steal victory, but the possibility of another orange revolution is small. "Every politician has nightmares about another revolution," says Rybachuk. "One not chanting a leader's name, but saying, 'To hell with...
...Tuesday, Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, a little more than a decade after he was arrested, beaten and jailed on sodomy charges, walked into a Kuala Lumpur courtroom to face the same charges once again. In August, the government charged the politician with sodomy for the second time in his career, in this case, with a 23-year-old former aide, Saiful Bukhari Azlan. Under Malaysian law, consensual sodomy or sex acts "against the order of nature," as it is described in the law here, is punishable with up to 20 years in jail...
...sodomy charges in 2000, of which he was also found guilty but later acquitted in 2004. Some of the key players in that case figure again in the current trial, which started on Tuesday with preliminary arguments after a delay of nearly 16 months. The 63-year-old politician will once again face Gani Patail, the lawyer who prosecuted him in 1998 and is now Attorney General, as well as Musa Hassan, the man who investigated the first case and is now Inspector General of Police. Anwar has accused both men of fabricating evidence against him, charges they strenuously deny...
...must work harder than ever to accomplish significant reform. After all, the Democrats still have a 59-seat majority in the Senate, a majority in the House, and control of the White House. As Obama’s first State of the Union address indicated, he is an able politician, and his party has no reason to abandon its entire agenda at this point in time...