Kiev, Feb 10 (RIA Novosti) Former prime minister Viktor Yanukovych received 48.95 percent of the vote in the second round of Ukraine’s presidential election, 3.48 percent more than his opponent Yulia Tymoshenko, election authorities said Wednesday after completing the vote count. With all the votes counted, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko had 45.47 percent of...
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Kiev, Feb 9 (DPA) Viktor Yanukovych has effectively won Ukraine’s presidential election with a 3.14 percentage-point margin of victory over his opponent, and practically all ballots counted, a senior election official said Monday. ‘Factually one can say, that there is an obvious victor of this election,’ said Myhailo Ohendovsky, chairman of Ukraine’s Central Election...
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Kiev, Feb 7 (RIA Novosti) Polls opened Sunday in Ukraine’s presidential runoff, with Ukrainians having to choose between opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in a bitterly fought election. Yanukovych enjoys support of mainly Russian-speaking south-eastern regions. He won the first round of Ukraine’s presidential elections Jan 17 with 35 percent...
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Kiev, Jan 18 (RIA Novosti) Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and current Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko are heading for a runoff Feb 7 in Ukraine’s presidential vote set to decide the future of a country torn between traditional ties with Russia and a post-Soviet drive westward. Sunday’s presidential vote was the first since the 2004...
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Kiev, Jan 18 (DPA) Viktor Yanukovych, a former prime minister supporting close relations with Russia, won the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election Saturday, according to exit polls. The big business-friendly politician is likely to capture at least 31.5 percent of the popular vote, according to a survey conducted by Ukraine’s leading Razumkov Research...
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Kiev, Jan 17 – Ukrainians voted Sunday in the first presidential elections since the 2004 Orange Revolution in a ballot set to determine the ex-Soviet republic’s relations with Russia and Europe. Election campaigning for 18 candidates came to an end Saturday. Viktor Yanukovych, leader of the opposition Party of Regions, and Prime Minister Yulia...
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Kiev, Dec 3 (EFE) Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have signed several agreements here, bolstering bilateral strategic cooperation. ‘We signed a joint declaration in which we gave the status of strategic cooperation to our relations,’ Yushchenko said at a joint press conference with Lula, who arrived in...
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Kiev, Nov 9 (RIA Novosti) The swine flu toll in Ukraine has risen to 155, the health ministry said Monday. Most of the deaths occurred in the western regions of Lvov and Ivano-Frankovsk, it said. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Monday urged the World Health Organisation (WHO) to provide swine flu vaccines to combat...
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