2015 Local Election - Oct. 25
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A woman examines her voting ballot at a polling station in Kyiv on Oct. 25, 2015, during Ukrainian local elections.
On Oct. 25, Ukrainians went to the polls to elect mayors and representatives to municipal councils. Under normal circumstances, local elections would go more or less unnoticed by international observers, but with no elections taking place in occupied territories, including Crimea and the Luhansk and Donetsk Peoples' Republics, these are far from normal times. Approximately 1,500 international observers joined over 3,000 domestic observers to monitor the first local elections since the Euromaidan revolution.
