Section: US & Canada
Ukraine votes to overhaul parliament
Voters in Ukraine headed to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament, overhauling a legislature tainted by its association with ousted President Viktor Yanukovych. …read more Source: CTV...
War-Weary Ukraine Votes for New Parliament
President Petro Poroshenko’s party has campaigned on an ambitious reform agenda and is expected to get the largest share of the vote. …read more Source:...
Russia Ramps Military Probing in the Baltics
NATO says Russia has increased provocative military actions in and around the Baltics in recent months. They include the reported incursion of a Russian spy plane into Estonian airspace earlier this week. “I would suggest that the level of this provocative flying is higher than at the height of the Cold War,” said a NATO spokesman who added that...
Ukraine Voting For New Parliament
Ukraine is voting for a new parliament. The election Sunday is the first parliamentary poll since street protests in the capital, Kyiv, forced Moscow-backed leader Viktor Yanukovich to flee in February, ushering in a pro-Europe leadership under President Petro Poroshenko. Analysts say Poroshenko’s party is expected to get the largest share...
Ukraine election: “Revolution of honour must win,’ says former PM
Voting began in Ukraine today in an election that is expected to strengthen President Petro Poroshenko’s mandate to end a separatist conflict in the east of the country. …read more...
Yulia Tymoshenko Votes In Ukrainian Parliamentary Election
Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her husband, Oleksandr Tymoshenko, went to the polls in Dnipropetrovsk as voting opened in Ukraine’s parliamentary elections on October 26. Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party is trying to cross the 5 percent threshold to gain seats in parliament after several prominent members left...
Ukraine Elections 2014: Country Votes In Poll Likely To Strengthen President’s Hand
(Reuters) – Ukrainians voted on Sunday in an election that is likely to install a pro-Western parliament and strengthen President Petro Poroshenko’s mandate to end separatist conflict in the east, but may fuel tension with Russia. Voting started on a cold but sunny morning in Kiev in the first parliamentary election since street...
Ukrainians go to polls in snap parliamentary election
Voters in Ukraine headed to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament, overhauling a legislature tainted by its association with ousted President Viktor Yanukovych. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine votes to overhaul parliament tainted by legacy of deposed president
Voters in Ukraine are heading to the polls to elect a new parliament, overhauling a legislature tainted by its association with ousted President Viktor Yanukovych. …read more Source: FOX...
Voting starts in parliamentary election in Ukraine
Ukrainians voted on Sunday in an election that is expected to strengthen President Petro Poroshenko’s mandate to end a separatist conflict in the east of the country. …read more Source: The Toronto...
