Oct. 26, 2014 Parliamentary Election

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Al Jazeera America: Euromaidan’s heroes run for parliament in bid for reform

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Al Jazeera America

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Russian lawmaker says legislators won’t monitor Ukrainian elections

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Artem Kadomsky fired under lustration law

According to a statement on the government’s website, Kadomsky was included into the list of managing officials at central executive agencies that are …
Interfax-Ukraine

The Guardian: Putin under pressure to denounce rival elections in Ukraine

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The Guardian

The Interpreter: Who are Ukraine’s “Darth Vaders?”

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The Interpreter

Illegitimate elections in Donbas to strengthen escalation in region

According to the press service of the Ukrainian president, at a meeting in Milan on Oct. 17 Poroshenko and Werner Faymann stressed the need for the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Rada elections won’t be held in 14 election districts in Donbas

“In Donetsk region, voters who live on the territory of eight of the 21 electoral districts will not be able to take part in the vote,” he said at a …
Interfax-Ukraine

Supporters of ‘dictator laws’ trying to stay in parliament

Their passage with 106 additional deputies of the Jan. 16 “dictator laws” had the opposite effect: an enraged public responded by intensifying the …
Oksana Lyachynska

CEC registers nearly 1,200 international observers for parliamentary elections in Ukraine

The CEC at a meeting on Oct. 15 registered observers from the Czech Republic and Norway, as well as from four international organizations. In …
Interfax-Ukraine

Like father, like son: Volodymyr and Ivan Lytvyn run for seats in Zhytomyr Oblast

Voldymyr Lytvyn, 58, has been member of parliament since 2002 and served as parliament speaker in 2002-2006 and 2008-2012.  He is a controversial …
Anastasia Forina

Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front is gaining momentum weeks ahead of elections

While in mid-September the party had some 3.9 percent, which is lower than the 5 percent threshold, a poll by Rating sociological service published on …
Oksana Grytsenko
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Kyiv Post+

Election Commission discusses with OSCE observers the preparations for parliamentary elections

Okhendovsky met with special coordinator of OSCE short-term observer mission, Vice President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Kent Harstedt on …
Interfax-Ukraine

DPR preparing for its own elections rather than Ukrainian ones

 ‘The only elections we are preparing for are the Nov. 2 ballot, which would elect the head of the republic and Supreme Council deputies. We are …
Interfax-Ukraine

Reuters: Ukraine acts against corruption, protests mar election run-up

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Reuters

Ukraine’s parliament passes law on criminal responsibility for violation of citizens’ electoral rights

A total of 233 MPs backed up the relative bill during the Oct. 14 sitting. The legislative act provides additional protection to citizens’ electoral …
Interfax-Ukraine

Demonstrators clash with police near Verkhovna Rada

Major political groups said they had nothing to do with the clashes and blamed agent provocateurs. Demonstrators exploded firecrackers, threw smoke …
Oleg Sukhov
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Kyiv Post+

Reuters: Ukraine acts against corruption, protests mar election run-up

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Reuters

Brother of Kharkiv ex-governor fights tough for re-election

While Mykhaylo Dobkin, former governor of Kharkiv Oblast, is running to the parliament as number three under the Oppositional Bloc party list, his …
Oksana Lyachynska
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