Vienna, October 26 – On October 26, 2014, Ukrainians voted in the early parliamentary elections. Ukraine currently has a mixed electoral system (50% elected from party lists and 50% elected from constituencies or single-member districts) with a 5% election threshold. Here are the results of the National Exit Poll 2014 (I mention only those parties […]
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Ukraine Liveblog Day 251: Ukraine Goes to the Polls
Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For […]
Ukraine Liveblog Day 250: Ukraine Prepares For Tomorrow’s Elections
Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For […]
Ukraine Liveblog Day 249: Heavy Shelling And Movements Of Armour Reported In Donetsk
Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For […]
70 Percent of Ukrainians but Only 26 Percent of Russians Say There is a War Between Their Countries
Staunton, October 22 – Seventy percent of Ukrainians say that there is a war going on between Russia and Ukraine, while only 26 percent of Russians agree with that, a remarkable testimonial to Moscow media’s power to distort the situation — and one that also has had a impact in the West where many governments […]
Moscow Moves to Create Alternative Crimean Tatar Organization
Staunton, October 21 – The Russian occupation authorities have announced plans to create a new Crimean Tatar public movement by the end of this year, the latest step in their efforts to isolate, discredit and undermine the Crimean Tatar Mejlis which is committed to a Crimean Tatar future within Ukraine rather than in the Russian […]
Does Moscow have a Plan to Return Yanukovych to Power in Kyiv?
Staunton, October 21 – A Russian Internet site has published today what it says is a confidential plan by what is says are “structures close” to Viktor Yanukovych to restore him to power, a document that it says it cannot confirm as genuine, but one that is certainly intended as part of an effort to […]
Another Indication a New Russian Attack in Ukraine May Be Imminent
Staunton, October 20 – Many in both Ukraine and the Russian Federation have suggested in recent days that a new and large-scale Russian military attack in Ukraine may be imminent, but perhaps the clearest evidence for that has been provided by an unexpected source: Ella Panfilova, the Russian human rights ombudsman. In an interview published […]
Might Moscow Partition Crimea as a Way Out of Crisis?
Staunton, October 20 – Almost all discussions about Crimea have talked about it as a single whole and thus considered its future either as being entirely in the Russian Federation or entirely in Ukraine, but in fact, there are two Crimeas, Yevgeny Ikhlov argues, and that could be the basis for a settlement of a […]
‘Putin is Leading Russia into Chinese Slavery’ – Nemtsov’s Ten Theses on Crimea
Staunton, October 20 – As Andrey Illarionov has wisely put it, the debate among Russian opposition figures concerning what should be done with Crimea is in fact a debate about the future of Russia or, as he puts it, “tell me what you think about Crimea, and I’ll tell you what you think about the […]