Section: Australia
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- SBS (Australia) (245)
- The West Australian (Australia) (2,557)
Ukrainians temper hopes as they head to polls
The elections will probably bring a cadre of new faces to power, further upending Ukraine’s chaotic political system. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine’s president calls for support ahead of poll
Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko has called on citizens to elect a majority in Sunday’s poll to see through a pro-Europe reform agenda and break with the Soviet past. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine set to vote for pro-Western future (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainians were to vote Sunday in parliamentary elections overshadowed by a bloody pro-Russian uprising in the east, but described by President Petro Poroshenko as a historic chance to set the country on a pro-Western path. …read more Source: The West...
Bitter mood on eve of Ukraine’s election (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The mood in Maidan Square, epicentre of Ukraine’s democracy revolution, was as bitter on the eve of Sunday’s parliamentary elections as the suddenly freezing October wind. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine readies to vote under shadow of war (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian leaders made final appeals to voters ahead of snap parliamentary elections Sunday that are intended to give impetus to democratic reforms, but are overshadowed by deepening conflict with Russia and pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: The West...
Allies of deposed leader struggling in Ukraine vote (AFP)
Kramatorsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – As he campaigned for Ukraine’s parliamentary polls, to be held Sunday, Nestor Shufrych was pelted with eggs and injured in a scuffle with nationalists. …read more Source: The West...
War-scarred Ukraine counts down to key vote (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine wraps up campaigning Friday for a weekend vote that will dramatically reshape parliament after a year of upheavals in which a deadly pro-Russian uprising has threatened to splinter the ex-Soviet state. …read more Source: The West...
French court authorises extradition of Kazakh tycoon Ablyazov (AFP)
Lyon (AFP) – A French court on Friday authorised the extradition of exiled Kazakh oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov to Russia and Ukraine, despite concerns over his safety if the move goes ahead. …read more Source: The West...
‘We did not start this’: Putin accuses United States of damaging world order
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Friday of endangering global security by imposing a “unilateral diktat” on the rest of the world and shifted blame for the Ukraine crisis onto the West. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Pro-Russian mood lingers in ex-rebel city as Ukraine vote looms (AFP)
Slavyansk (Russia) (AFP) – In the war-scarred city of Slavyansk in east Ukraine few people are looking to the future with hope as they gear up for a parliamentary poll this Sunday. …read more Source: The West...
