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Nezalezhnosti and October Palace. The
Supreme Court banned CEC to promulgate
the election results. At the same time, V.
Yanukovych’s headquarters planned to
conduct his inauguration on November, 26.
Despite the ruling of the Supreme Court, at
the industrial complex “The Press of Ukraine”
an issue of the newspaper “The Governmental
Courier” was printed with the CEC resolution
about V. Yanukovych’s victory. The printing
process was stopped by deputies from faction
“Our Ukraine”.
November, 26 In Vokzalna Square in Kyiv the meeting of V.
2004 Yanukovych’s supporters took place. They
came by trains from Donbas and other eastern
regions of Ukraine. The session of Luhansk
oblast council resolved to establish the
autonomous South-East Ukrainian Republic.
They appealed to V. Putin for its recognition
by Russia. InMariinsky Palace, surrounded by
demonstrators, there was a meeting of “the
round table” organized. The president of
Ukraine L. Kuchma, V. Yushchenko, V.
Yanukovych, the president of Poland O.
Kvasnevsky, the president of Lithuania V.
Adamkus, the Commissar of EU of foreign
affairs H. Solana, the general secretary of
OSCE (Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe) Y. Kubish and the
chairman of the State Duma of Russia B.
Hryzlov participated in it. The parties agreed
to abstain from applying force and formed a
working group to settle the political crisis.

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