Well, you can't say you didn't see this coming.

A fresh crisis in relations between Russia and the West over Ukraine has threatened to erupt after Moscow said international monitors who gave the country's presidential election a clean bill of health were not objective, just as European leaders hailed the result.
The Russian statement, the first from Moscow since the weekend's election results were announced, suggested that the Kremlin might refuse to recognize the victory of Viktor Yushchenko, who led the "orange revolution".