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Oct. 26, 2014 Parliamentary Election

Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh runs for parliament in majority constituency in Dnipropetrovsk region

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published Sept. 27, 2014 at 5:56 pm

Activists from the militant nationalist movement Right Sector protested against the Sept. 16 adoption of laws that give self-rule powers to some some territories in the Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts controlled by Kremlin-backed separatists.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

The Central Election Commission (CEC) has registered Right Sector Party Leader Dmytro Yarosh as candidate to Ukrainian parliament members in majority constituency No. 39 in Dnipropetrovsk region. The decision was made at a meeting of the CEC on Friday.

Yarosh was presented as a candidate to parliament members at a congress of the Right Sector Party held on September 13, 2014 in the counterterrorist operation zone.