The failure of South Ossetia’s presidential election and the popularity of Alla Dzhioyeva are indicative of broader trends that have significant, largely favorable consequences for the U.S.

Ukraine faced a fateful choice on Sunday: not just between two sharply opposed candidates in a presidential election runoff, but between two political systems. Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko promised a genuine liberal democracy along Western lines, while Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych represented those forces that, backed by a neo-imperial Russia, would rule this large European nation through force and fraud.

The Ukrainian Supreme Court has decided: the run-off election was falsified and on December 26, Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych will face each other again in a repeat of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential elections. Will the winner, whoever he may be, re-unite the country? Can Ukraine's "Orange...

Secretary of State Colin Powell says the U.S. cannot accept the Ukraine election result as legitimate and called for an investigation. He warned that if there is no investigation, there could be implications for U.S. relations with Ukraine.

We are witnessing the rise of compromise politics and consensus-building in Ukrainian society.

An interview with Ukraine's foreign minister, Borys Tarasyuk.

A democratic Ukraine would not be anti-Russian; but it would inevitably generate strong pressures for a democratic revival in Russia. With real democracy in Ukraine, more and more Russians would view the Putin regime as an anachronism.

Urging the West to act, Lady Thatcher said: "Tyranny must not prevail."