Revolution in the Ukraine?

Wow. There's some heavy stuff going on over in the Ukraine right now. I'm sure you've heard already, but long story short: run off election between the guy who's part of the current leadership regime (and was in prison for robbery and assault a few decades ago, and is linked to big business and thought of as associated with crime) and the opposition leader had major voting fraud problems, and people are taking to the streets to protest against the pro-Russian guy who was supposedly elected. Of course, there's a lot more to the story. I learned a lot about the whole thing through this post on Metafilter, and subsequent comments.

Here's an article that has more background on the politcal climate in the Ukraine, and about the two leaders.

This page has up-to-date info about what's going on. It's being translated by a few people on the fly, so give them a break. Here's two bloggers who are posting info, in case you can't get on to http://eng.maidanua.org/ (the page I linked to at the start of this paragraph, it's running rather slowly right now, understandably).

BBC is covering this, and has a slideshow of pictures up.

People of the Ukraine, for what it's worth, I'm with you. I hope no blood is shed, and that the truth comes out on what happened with the election. There's definitely something very shady going on, and such corruption can not be tolerated. I only hope that my country, if faced under similar circumstances, would stand up against such tyranny. With love, from the outskirts of Washington, DC.