100% of ballots have been processed. CEC has started counting the votes After 100.00 % protocols delivered to CEC have been processed, the intermediate results of election to Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine look as follows: Party of Regions – 32.12% BYuT – 22.27% Our Ukraine – 13.94% SPU – 5.67% CPU – 3.66% The rest of the parties and blocs do not overcome the 3% threshold: Natalya...

National exit-poll - 2006 (preliminary data at 6PM) Party of Region s 33.3% BYuT 22.7% ‘Our Ukraine’ Bloc 13.5% SPU 5.3% CPU 3.5% Vitrenko Bloc 3.4% Lytvyn Bloc 2.7% ‘Viche’ party 2.3% Kostenko and Plusch Bloc 1.72% PORA-PRP 1.37% National exit-poll of 2006 is the total initiative of the Foundation ‘Democratic Initiative’, Kiev International Institute...

Talks about the election falsification in Donbas has become fashionable in political environment of the region. The Party of Regions accuses the 'orange' power in what it was accused a year and a half ago, and 'Our Ukraine' declares of falsifications allegedly prepared by the V. Yanukovich's party and local authorities. The result is the strained waiting for something bad, but unlike the previous presidential elections,...

We have to expect the special operations of the politicians on 23-24 March in the most expensive broadcasting air time The last month of election campaign is the most difficult, less prognostic. But at the same time, it is the most interesting time. It is the best time for the top-players and their technologies to demonstrate their creative power. But they shouldn’t overdo so not to eliminate the possibility...

Politicians' expenses for these elections , including shadowy inflows, will outnumber even those that were spent for the last presidential, campaign and will be about one third of the state budget of the country - $10 billion. Such evaluation was given by the Coalition of the public organizations of Ukraine called 'Freedom of Choice'. The head of the Coalition's project of monitoring media, Igor Markov, during...

From the outside, the mayor election looks feeble, despite that less than a month is left before the day of voting. One has impression that the Donetsk candidates are not in a hurry to have their pre-election campaigns, For more than one month, the regional media is vainly hunting for any evidences of availability of the pre-election process as it is. Unfortunately, their main informational sources have only been rumors,...

In a comparatively short period after presidential elections, that was the third visit of the most charming lady in Ukrainian politics to Donetsk. The first time, still warmed up by the revolutionary Maidan, in December 2004, she came with the crows' hooting and clumsy attempts of TRK 'Ukraine' journalists to instigate her for aggression against Donbass. Nobody remembers her costume then because on the screen she...

For an hour the Kramatorsk inhabitants were standing on the central square waiting for the leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovich. It was good that the snow had been cleared away from square the day before. None of the streets was so clean. It's good though that, when required, the means and equipments could be found. 'The closer elections, the better is the mood. Why?' asked V. Yanukovich the people...

Let's start from nil and go upwards. There are only 6 (out of 45) parties and blocs that don't have people with Donetsk in their souls and biographies. Amazing is the fact that the list of once 'purely Donetsk' Liberal Party of Ukraine that had been created and headed by the Donetsk citizen Scherban, does not have anyone from Donetsk. The rest seem to be independent on Donetsk but their absence on the lists of...

On 19 February at 11.30 the building of the musical drama theater was drowning oin the waves of white and blue regionals' symbols. Dozens of guys in blue caps, blue scarves and with banners of the Party of Regions were waiting for coming of the high-rank gusts. The loudspeaker were producing loud bright songs. The journalists were requested to go through side entrance. The lists of invited were checked.

As it is known, nobody in Ukraine reads the party programs. But for these elections the smart political technologists found their application. As it turned out, the programs could be nicely presented as an excellent pr-tool. There can be cited heaps of examples: from the colorful show-presentation of 'Our Ukraine' to, mildly speaking, annoying presentation of 'Plan of Actions' and 'Veche' of Inna Bogoslovskaya. The...

The full house that was at the press conference held by the people's deputy of Ukraine in Donetsk could be envied by many politicians as well as by some actors of the speaking genre. All the seats were taken in a big room long before the event started, and the organizers had to fetch all the chairs available from neighboring offices for those who were willing to see Shufrich alive. Nestor Shufrich was 25 minutes...

The snowfalls passing by east of Ukraine for a month and a half now have made a decision to fill in the 'gap' and started their labors. It is the second day and night that Donetsk oblast has continuous snowfalls and snowstorms. Roads and street are covered with snow, even the markets stopped their work. At the Central market of Donetsk they don't sell any frozen potatoes and apples, and milk in packages is crunching...

My mother-in-law, having watched enough of advertisement rolls on TV, went to the post office for pension and, shaking the Constitution in her hand, strictly asked,' Where is my ecological allowance?' The most amazing was that the post office employee seemed to believe the importunate advertisement and responded reassuringly, 'Not yet', which actually could men' don't worry, just wait a little'. The matured people...

1 Yanukovich Viktor Fedorovich, ex-premier of Ukraine 2 Karpacheva Nina Ivanovna, Verkhovna Rada authorized representative on human rights 3. Skudar Georgy Markovich, people's deputy of Ukraine 4 Chornovyl Taras Viacheslavovich, people's deputy of Ukraine 5 Boguslayev Viacheslav Alexandrovich , Hero of Ukraine, Director of 'Motor-Sich' 6 Bogatyreva Raisa Vasilyevna, people's deputy of...

There were multiple publications on problems with billboard ads and that there is an obvious plot at the advertisement market. It's not a secret that the cost of advertisement in Donetsk in some occasions is even higher than in Kiev. Advertisers and representatives of Kiev advertisement agencies state that the Donetsk market of external ads has been for some years monopolized. It's interesting that in spite...