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Ukraine rebels lure voters to polls – with root vegetables
Voters who turned out for Sunday’s rebel-organised elections in eastern Ukraine offered cut-price root vegetables in apparent bid to lend polls much-needed stamp of legitimacy …read more Source: The...
Ukraine: Donetsk votes for new reality in country that does not exist
The election for the regions prime minister has given hope to older generations that they will never again be part of UkraineWith armed men in the polling station, no voter lists, and international observers coming from an organisation concocted the night before the vote, these were no normal elections.But then the Donetsk Peoples Republic is no...
Russian-backed regions of Ukraine hold poll
A week after Ukraine elected an EU-friendly government, a vote in breakaway regions could lead to a fresh diplomatic standoff between Moscow and the west …read more Source: Financial...
Eyewitness: Lviv, Ukraine
Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series … …read more Source: The...
Elections Taking Place In Rebel-Held Ukraine
Some in the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics welcome the vote, which is not recognised by Kiev or the West. …read more Source: Sky...
Pro-Russian rebels vote for leaders in eastern Ukraine
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Russian rebels voted to set up a separatist leadership in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, aiming to take the war-torn region closer to Russia and defying Kiev and the West, as shelling continued across the territory. …read more Source:...
Ukraine separatists begin voting in controversial election
Kiev and West refuse to recognise vote taking place in Luhansk and DOnetsk …read more Source: The...
Ukraine separatists to hold polls
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine are preparing to hold elections which the West has denounced as illegitimate. …read more Source:...
Pro-Russia separatists hold leadership elections in two Ukraine enclaves
Kiev and western powers refuse to recognise votes in Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics, held amid continuing fightingPro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine hold controversial leadership elections on Sunday which Kiev and the west have refused to recognise and which threaten to deepen the international crisis over the conflict.Fighting...
Ukraine crisis: The West will not accept result of a ballot for autonomy in Donetsk
The last time Roman Lyagin organised a ballot in Donetsk, the situation in the city was different. Kiev still held most levers of power, while Mr Lyagin and other Russian-backed separatists had barricaded themselves in the regional administration building, awaiting an assault by special forces that never materialised. …read more Source: The...
