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Local elections officials in Donetsk, Ukraine, open a ballot box

Local elections officials in Donetsk, Ukraine, open a ballot box to count votes in the country’s landmark 2004 presidential election, which pitted Viktor Yushchenko against then-Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Yushchenko won in a second run-off election after the Ukrainian Supreme Court invalidated the results of the first run-off election due to widespread fraud. (© AP Images)