Ukraine’s Supreme Court today turned down four appeals against the result of last month’s presidential election results filed by Viktor Yanukovych, the former prime minister who preliminary results show lost to a Western-leaning reformer.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych’s appeal against the result of the presidential election re-run was rejected by the Central Election Commission today.

Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has called for a serious investigation to determine how he was poisoned by dioxin, but urged it be conducted after the December 26 presidential runoff election to avoid influencing the results.