Losing candidate makes final appeal to Supreme Court

The Ukrainian Supreme Court began hearings today on what appeared to be the last appeal by former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych over alleged fraud in the presidential election he lost to Viktor Yushchenko.

Yanukovych, who took 44.2% of votes against Yushchenko’s 51.9% in the December 26 election, has called on the court to annul the results and order a second rerun.