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52 Appendix Table A.1 Selected Cases of Color Revolutions in Eurasia in Comparison Country Year Election Incumbent Oppositional leader(s) Outcomes Serbia 2000 Presidential Slobodan Milošević Vojislav Koštunica Resignation Milošević Zoran Ðind ić Presidency Koštunica (until 2003) Parliamentary elections DOS government (prime minister Ðind ić) Georgia 2003 Parliamentary Eduard Shevardnadze (Aslan Abashidze) Mikhail Saakashvili Resignation Shevardnadze and later, Abashidze Nino Burjanadze Opposition-dominated parliament (prime minister Zhvania) Zurab Zhvania Presidential elections Presidency Saakashvili (until 2013) Armenia 2003/2004 Presidential Robert Kocharian Stepan Demirchian Presidential elections Artashes Geghamian Acknowledgement of fraud by the Constitutional Court [ referendum of confidence (never conducted) Presidency Kocharian (until 2008) Ukraine 2004/2005 Presidential Leonid Kuchma (not running) Viktor Yushchenko Legal battle over election result Viktor Yanukovych (designated successor) Yulia Tymoshenko Recognition election result Yanukovych Presidency Yushchenko (until 2010) Collapse Orange Collation Unstable political alliances and self-blockade Presidential elections 2010 Presidency Yanukovich (until 2014) (continued)
Appendix 53 Table A.1 (continued) Country Year Election Incumbent Oppositional leader(s) Outcomes Kyrgyzstan 2005 Parliamentary Askar Akaev Kurmanbek Bakiev Resignation Akaev Roza Otunbaeva Opposition dominated parliament Presidential elections Presidency Bakiev (until 2010) Protests 2010 ([ interim government Otunbaeva) Azerbaijan 2005 Parliamentary Ilham Aliev Isa Gambar Parliamentary elections, victory Ali Masimov YAP Presidential elections 2008, 2013 Presidency Aliev (until present) Belarus 2006 Presidential Aliaksandr Lukashenka Aliaksandr Milinkevich Presidential elections Aliaksandr Kazulin Presidency Lukashenka (until present) Parliamentary elections 2008, 2012 Russia 2011/2012 Parliamentary and presidential Vladimir Putin (prime minister running for president) Extra-parliamentary opposition mobilizing for protest: Alexei Navalni Boris Nemtsov Sergei Udaltsov Parliamentary elections, victory United Russia (prime minister Medvedev) Presidential elections Presidency Putin (until present)
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