15 years ago the US organized campaigns for electoral defeat of the rulers of Serbia, Georgia, Belarus and Ukraine. Was it, is it, wrong for a foreign power to intervene in an election that way?

Milošević in Serbia was a genocidal nationalist, and Lukashenko in Belarus was and is a tyrannical absolutist. I think such rulers invite foreign nonviolent intervention. Shevardnadze was an important politician in the Soviet Union, and probably no respecter of human rights as president of Georgia. I don't know much about Kuchma.

The campaigns did not steal the election, but they were a form of outside interference nonetheless, comparable in a very general way to what Russia did in the US in 2016. But there are differences. The Russian intervention was in support of a candidate whose party obtained "victory" by rigging the election.

I think a functioning democracy is entitled to stop such outside interference in its elections.