Yanukovych loses another appeal against election result

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.

It was the latest rejection of a series of moves by Yanukovych’s campaign to overturn the Boxing Day election won by Viktor Yushchenko. That vote was a court-ordered rerun of the November election, which was annulled after allegations that massive fraud had given Yanukovych the victory.