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The treatment of Ukraine as a democracy should be no different than the treatment of Ukraine with any other form of government when it comes to respecting Ukrainian sovereignty.

And as I mentioned previously, western "concern" over the validity of the election depends entirely on who was declared the winner. Actual violations are a secondary factor. The fact that the initial western reaction was to demand that Yuschenko be declared the winner, rather than that a new fairer election be held, is very revealing in that respect.