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Ukraine Court Considers Disputed Election as Eastern Region Threatens to Break Away

Ukraine Court Considers Disputed Election as Eastern Region Threatens to Break Away

Political tensions in Ukraine are increasing as the country’s Supreme Court considers claims of fraud in the recent presidential elections that are straining relations between Russia and the West and are threatening to break the country apart. We go to Kiev to get a report and we speak with New School University professor Nina Khrushcheva, granddaughter of former Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev. We also speak with London Guardian reporter Ian Traynor who raises questions about U.S. complicity in the dispute and investigative reporter Robert Parry about the media’s coverage of presidential elections in Ukraine and the U.S. [Includes rush transcript]

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