Viktor Yushchenko, the winner of Ukraine's hotly contested presidential race, said Friday that he had ordered protesters to remove the tent camp in downtown Kiev, as the campaign team of his rival Viktor Yanukovych filed its appeal of the election results with the Supreme Court. "Unfortunately, yesterday I had to sign the order (to lift the tent camp)," Yushchenko told reporters. The move symbolizes Yushchenko's confidence that the Supreme Court will reject Yanukovych's appeal, which urges the court to "order a revote" of the Dec. 26 presidential vote. Camp residents had vowed to stay in their tents until Yushchenko's inauguration. Yushchenko said be believes that the so-called Orange Revolution, a wave of protests that followed the fraudulent Nov. 21 runoff for the presidency, is not over. "It's a pity that the camp as a symbol of this process is already history ... but on the other side we are only beginning the Orange Revolution," Yushchenko said.
