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    Ukraine’s Parliamentary Vote Won’t Heal the Nation’s Divide
    Oct25

    Ukraine’s Parliamentary Vote Won’t Heal the Nation’s Divide

    Saturday, October 25 , 2014 - 18:13 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    The lynch mob caught up with Nestor Shufrich on Sept. 30, when he was campaigning for re-election to Ukraine’s parliament. Outside the press conference he was due to give that day in the port city of Odessa, a gang of activists and right wing thugs were waiting for him with a garbage dumpster, into which they had planned to stuff the...

    Ukraine pauses before decisive vote
    Oct25

    Ukraine pauses before decisive vote

    Saturday, October 25 , 2014 - 18:13 (EEST) Section: The Bismarck Tribune

    Election officials assemble ballot boxes at a polling station in the government controlled town of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014. Ukrainian parliamentary elections will be … …read more Source: The Bismarck...

    Can a Wartime Election Be Successful?
    Oct25

    Can a Wartime Election Be Successful?

    Saturday, October 25 , 2014 - 17:43 (EEST) Section: The Atlantic (USA)

    This weekend, Ukraine will hold a parliamentary election, but only part of the nation will participate. Crimea has fallen to Russia and eastern Ukraine is still widely dominated by pro-Russian separatists, who consider the territory they control a sovereign nation. As a result, 30 out of 450 parliamentary seats will remain vacant. Born in Kiev...

    The Psych Ward for People Who Broke Into the White House
    Oct25

    The Psych Ward for People Who Broke Into the White House

    Saturday, October 25 , 2014 - 17:43 (EEST) Section: The Atlantic (USA)

    Last month, Omar Gonzalez, an Iraq War veteran from Texas, hopped the White House fence, overpowered a guard, and made it all the way into the East Room before he was apprehended by a Secret Service agent. Gonzalez had a knife on his person, and it soon emerged that he had previously been arrested in July, when state troopers in Virginia found...

    Ukraine pauses before decisive vote
    Oct25

    Ukraine pauses before decisive vote

    Saturday, October 25 , 2014 - 17:28 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is bracing for decisive parliamentary elections against the backdrop of unrest in regions roiled by conflict between government troops and pro-Russian separatist forces. Campaigning material was taken down across the country Saturday in line with election laws ahead of a vote that pollsters say will be dominated...

    Ukraine pauses before decisive parliamentary vote soured by specter of separatist conflict
    Oct25

    Ukraine pauses before decisive parliamentary vote soured by specter of separatist conflict

    Saturday, October 25 , 2014 - 17:28 (EEST) Section: FOX News (USA)

    Ukraine is bracing for decisive parliamentary elections against the backdrop of unrest in regions roiled by conflict between government troops and pro-Russian separatist forces. …read more Source: FOX...

    Taking Measure Of The Ukrainian Mind-Set
    Oct25

    Taking Measure Of The Ukrainian Mind-Set

    Saturday, October 25 , 2014 - 16:13 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    How have Ukrainian attitudes toward the EU, Russia, and NATO changed? Is it possible to conduct opinion polls in the Donbas? And why is support for the Ukrainian Communist Party in decline? …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukraine elections highlight nation’s split between east and west

    Saturday, October 25 , 2014 - 14:58 (EEST) Section: The Washington Post (USA)

    KIEV, Ukraine — Marina Demko wants to build a stronger Ukraine if she wins a seat in her nation’s landmark Sunday parliamentary elections. But she has one big problem: she is campaigning to represent a part of her country that is under the control of Russian-supported rebels who are trying to build a parallel state. Many residents there who...

    Campaigning Ends Ahead Of Key Ukraine Election
    Oct25

    Campaigning Ends Ahead Of Key Ukraine Election

    Saturday, October 25 , 2014 - 14:43 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    Voting will not take place in 14 districts of eastern Ukraine currently under the control of the separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    War-scarred Ukraine counts down to key vote
    Oct25

    War-scarred Ukraine counts down to key vote

    Saturday, October 25 , 2014 - 6:43 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine voters will go to the polls Sunday in elections set to dramatically reshape parliament, after a year of upheavals in which a deadly pro-Russian uprising has threatened to splinter the ex-Soviet state.Campaigning ended on Friday for the polls called by President Petro Poroshenko in August.Poroshenko is under pressure to...