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Police: Grenade explosion in Marhanets kills 1 person, injures 3

Police are establishing the circumstances of the grenade explosion in the town of Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk region, as a result of which a person …
Interfax-Ukraine

Re-run of mayoral election likely in Kryvyi Rih

Milobog, who represents the pro-European Samopomich Party, says that incumbent Mayor Yury Vilkul, a member of the Opposition Bloc and former ally of …
Oleg Sukhov

Kryvyi Rih commission paves way for mayoral vote recount

However, the city commission faces several challenges including an unfavorable court ruling, the Central Election Commission’s uncertain position on …
Oleg Sukhov

Yanukovych ally’s supporters derail recount in Kryvyi Rih mayoral vote (VIDEOS)

The commission’s latest meeting on the night of Dec. 2 was accompanied by scuffles, violent standoffs, a bomb threat and an electricity blackout. The …
Oleg Sukhov

Bloomberg: Old guard clinches mayoral race on edge of Ukraine’s eastern war

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Bloomberg

Samopomich candidate scores victories in struggle for Kryvyi Rih vote cancellation

“A genuine popular revolution is taking place in Kryvyi Rih now,” Semen Semenchenko, a lawmaker from the pro-European Samopomich party, wrote on …
Oleg Sukhov

Pyatt hopes for elections in occupied territories under Ukrainian law

“Continue to hope Ukrainians in occupied territories, IDPs, refugees may soon choose own leaders, consistent with Ukrainian law, OSCE standards, and …
Interfax-Ukraine

Votings in Mariupol, Krasnoarmiysk meet law – European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations

“Votings in Mariupol and Krasnoarmiysk were mainly well-ordered, in line with the law and without frustration,” reads the ENEMO report posted on Nov. …
Interfax-Ukraine

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Monitors say elections in two eastern Ukraine cities held properly

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Mariupol makes second attempt to elect mayor after failed vote

It was the city’s second try at electing local authorities after the local election commission blocked the first vote on Oct. 25, refusing to …
Oksana Grytsenko

Demonstrators take over Kryvyi Rih City Hall

The protesters’ actions were reminiscent of those during the 2013-2014 EuroMaidan Revolution, when demonstrators opposed to then-President Viktor …
Oleg Sukhov

Ukraine Today: Ukrainian local elections begin in several areas near frontline

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Ukraine Today

Vera Zimmerman: Making sense of Mariupol’s messy elections

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Vera Zimmerman

Local elections show voters want to divide power among several forces

An analysis by the Rating sociological group shows that the Poroshenko allies got just 19 percent of the overall vote in Ukraine’s local elections and …
Oksana Grytsenko

Residents choose ‘between two evils’ in Uzhhorod, opt for the pro-Yanukovych one

In the end, in the second round of the election for the city’s mayor on Nov. 15, former Yanukovych ally Bohdan Andriyiv, the current secretary of the …
Veronika Melkozerova

Brian Mefford: Runoff rundown in Ukraine’s elections

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Brian Mefford

CEC announces winners of mayoral election race in Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhgorod, Sumy and Berdiansk

Meanwhile, Vidrodzhennia party candidate Bohdan Andriiv won mayoral election runoff in Uzhgorod with 58.49 percent of the votes in …
Interfax-Ukraine

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Klitschko in again as Kyiv mayor, but it’s no knockout

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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