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Live Blog: Parliamentary Elections In Ukraine

11:41 28.10.2012
Last night, our correspondent in Crimea had his mobile phone robo-called...with a song by the band Leningrad. The lyrics:

The big day has arrived,
I was handed a ballot.
I put a little “x”, hey.
I vote against them all.

11:52 28.10.2012

Colleagues are saying that Tyahnybok (Svoboda party leader) didn’t vote, because he forgot his passport at home.

12:12 28.10.2012
Boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, leader of the opposition UDAR movement, speaking today (October 28) in Kyiv after voting in parliamentary elections: "We hope very much that these elections will be fair, but unfortunately there are many cases telling that a vast number of voters have been bribed. If any of you is offered money for your vote, don't be shy, take that money. They are just giving back to you money they stole from you before."
Boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, leader of the opposition UDAR movement, speaking today (October 28) in Kyiv after voting in parliamentary elections: "We hope very much that these elections will be fair, but unfortunately there are many cases telling that a vast number of voters have been bribed. If any of you is offered money for your vote, don't be shy, take that money. They are just giving back to you money they stole from you before."

UDAR party leader Vitaliy Klychko and his wife vote in a polling station in Kyiv on October 28, 2012.
UDAR party leader Vitaliy Klychko and his wife vote in a polling station in Kyiv on October 28, 2012.
12:15 28.10.2012
Information agency, Unian.ua reports:
An UDAR representative claims that a senior was discharged from the hospital in Dnipropetrovsk after refusing to say who he will vote for in the elections.
12:28 28.10.2012

RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, Radio Svoboda correspondent reports:


In Lugansk, a Party of Regions candidate is bribing voters with gifts from his store.

Several polling stations in voting district 109 are surrounded with blue tents carrying the sign, "Prodtorg." "Prodtorg. Soviet" is a store, which belongs to a Party of Regions candidate Volodymyr Madyanyk. Voters come to the tents with special marked coupons, which can later be exchanged with gifts at the "Prodtorg. Soviet" store. According to people whose coupons were already marked, they will receive their gifts after the elections are over.
12:47 28.10.2012
Mir24.tv reports (in RU):

A voter from Odessa ate his ballots after leaving the voting booth.

A 50-year-old man took his ballots and entered the voting booth. When he came out, instead of throwing them inside the ballot box, he started chewing on them.
13:03 28.10.2012

Anatoly Hrytsenko, the leader of Civic Position.
Anatoly Hrytsenko, the leader of Civic Position.

Anatoly Hrytsenko, the former Minister of Defence and leader of the party, Civic Position, wrote on his personal Facebook account (in Ukrainian) that his website has been hacked.

"My personal website was bombarded with DDos-attacks. As well as, the personal website of Tymoshenko, Turchinov and Yatsenyk. The government probably decided to play computer games with the opposition websites in addition to the issue of falsifications. We are working to restore them, but it [the websites] are not being attacked by dummies, but professionals…
13:11 28.10.2012

A Radio Svoboda correspondent reports that a safe in Donetsk was opened with an angle grinder and 31 ballots were burnt.

13:31 28.10.2012

There are now several reports of DDoS attacks on monitoring and candidate sites. Please email electionsrs@gmail.com with info/tips (Ukrainian, Russian, or English)


TRANSLATION: To all those interested, the websites of the election watchdogs are experiencing DDos attacks. Maydan, OPORA, Electua.

13:46 28.10.2012
The often-overlooked panda vote... video from Kyiv:

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