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Poroshenko Thanks Voters For Supporting “Course Toward Europe”
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has welcomed the outcome of the October 26 parliamentary election that showed strong support for pro-Western parties. In a statement released by his press service, Poroshenko said that Ukrainians showed they back his plans to end the separatist conflict in Ukraine’s east and pursue democratic reforms....
Ukraine Exit Polls Show Poroshenko’s Party Leading
Exit polls in Ukraine’s parliamentary elections showed three pro-European parties in the lead as polling stations closed on October 26. According to the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, the political bloc of President Petro Poroshenko in the lead with 23 percent of the vote, followed by the People’s Front with 21 percent and the...
Poroshenko Hopes For “Victory Of Democracy” In Ukrainian Vote
Poroshenko Hopes For “Victory Of Democracy” In Ukrainian Vote …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
“Darth Vader” Prevented From Voting In Kyiv
A man dressed as Darth Vader, the masked villain from the “Star Wars” movie franchise, tried to vote at a polling station in Kyiv on October 26, but was prevented from doing so by election officials. Darth Vader impersonators have made a number of appearances in Ukraine in the past two years as part of publicity stunts by the Internet...
Ukrainian Soldiers Go To The Polls; Wounded Vote At Hospitals
Members of the Ukrainian military cast ballots at a polling station in Kramatorsk in the country’s parliamentary elections on October 26. In the city of Lviv, soldiers wounded in the conflict in the country’s east voted from their hospital rooms, where election workers brought ballot boxes. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service)...
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 To Elect New Parliament
Ukrainians will vote in parliamentary elections on October 26 expected to put the country on a pro-Western path in an event President Petro Poroshenko has called “historic.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Taking Measure Of The Ukrainian Mind-Set
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...
Campaigning Ends Ahead Of Key Ukraine Election
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...
Putin Admits Helping Yanukovych Flee Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted publicly for the first time that Russia helped Viktor Yanukovych flee Ukraine after he was ousted as president of that country in February. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
