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Some Ukrainian Jews are taking to the streets, joining fellow citizens in protesting what they see as a fraudulent election.

Some Ukrainian Jews are taking to the streets, joining fellow citizens in protesting what they see as a fraudulent election.
But leaders of Jewish organizations in Ukraine are trying to stay neutral amid the ongoing wave of civil protests that broke out last week after official results showed that the government-backed candidate, Viktor Yanukovich, defeated Viktor Yuschenko by 49 percent to 46 percent in the Nov. 21 vote for president.
Since that time, some 200,000 pro-Yuschenko protesters have rallied in the streets of Kiev protesting the results. Yuschenko had called for new elections to be held next month, an idea that Yanukovich

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