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Few Ukrainian citizens in Russia voted in election. This from AFP:
MOSCOW, May 25, 2014 (AFP) - Several hundred Ukrainians voted in the country's presidential election in Moscow on Sunday but the vast majority of their countrymen in the Russian capital stayed away.
Viktor Girzhov, the head of the electoral commission at the Ukrainian embassy, said that 667 people had voted as of 4:00 pm Moscow time (1200 GMT).
That accounts for less than two percent of the Ukrainians registered as living in the Russian capital, Girzhov told a news conference.
"That doesn't seem like many people, but you have to remember that as a rule few Ukrainians vote in Moscow. In the last legislative elections, there were less than 500 participants," Girzhov said.
A total of 26,997 Ukrainians are registered at the Ukrainian consulate, which is a only a small fraction of the estimated 1.6 million Ukrainians living in Russia.
Viktor Girzhov, the head of the electoral commission at the Ukrainian embassy, said that 667 people had voted as of 4:00 pm Moscow time (1200 GMT).
That accounts for less than two percent of the Ukrainians registered as living in the Russian capital, Girzhov told a news conference.
"That doesn't seem like many people, but you have to remember that as a rule few Ukrainians vote in Moscow. In the last legislative elections, there were less than 500 participants," Girzhov said.
A total of 26,997 Ukrainians are registered at the Ukrainian consulate, which is a only a small fraction of the estimated 1.6 million Ukrainians living in Russia.
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15:15
25.5.2014
Some interesting facts and figures ftom "The Kyiv Post" Live Blog about voting in the east:
Observers say 15 out of 34 constituency election commissions not working in Donetsk Oblast
5:16 p.m. -- The information according to Jock Mendoza-Wilson, spokesman for billionaire Rinat Akhmetov:
According to the information provided by the election observers on the morning of May 25, 15 of 34 constituency election commissions do not work in Donetsk Oblast: Donetsk, 41 ,42,43, 44, 45; Horlivka, 51,52; 53 – Yenakiyevo; 54 – Torez; 55 – Shakhtersk; 46 Artemovsk (some of he election commissions are open, but they don’t know what to do as they don’t have any ballots); 48th precinct – Kramatorsk; 56, 57 – Makeyevka; 60 precinct, Maryinka (the constituency election commission doesn’t work but some of the polling stations are open)
Some of the polling stations are open and are trying to organize the voting process in just seven electoral precincts:
47 precinct (Aleksandrovka) – Only 19 polling stations; in two election commissions, heads and secretariesr etired from responsibility but the commissions decided to continue working;
49 precinct (Dobropolye) – just 8 polling stations are not open in Dobropolye, including one station in Dobropolye district
50 precinct (Krasnoarmeysk). In Krasnoarmeysk, six polling stations are not open (out of 55).
58 precinct (Mariupol) – just four polling stations are not open
59 precinct (Mariupol) – 91 polling stations are open, 8 stations are closed;
61 precinct (Volnovakha) – Some of the polling stations have opened but early in the morning polling stations No. 140803, No.140800, No. 140792 have been seized by Donetsk People's Republic representatives;
62 precinct (Starobeshevo)lthe electoral precincts are just receiving the voting bulletins. In Amvrosyevka, some unknown people have broken the windows of many buildings where the precinct election commissions sit.
5:16 p.m. -- The information according to Jock Mendoza-Wilson, spokesman for billionaire Rinat Akhmetov:
According to the information provided by the election observers on the morning of May 25, 15 of 34 constituency election commissions do not work in Donetsk Oblast: Donetsk, 41 ,42,43, 44, 45; Horlivka, 51,52; 53 – Yenakiyevo; 54 – Torez; 55 – Shakhtersk; 46 Artemovsk (some of he election commissions are open, but they don’t know what to do as they don’t have any ballots); 48th precinct – Kramatorsk; 56, 57 – Makeyevka; 60 precinct, Maryinka (the constituency election commission doesn’t work but some of the polling stations are open)
Some of the polling stations are open and are trying to organize the voting process in just seven electoral precincts:
47 precinct (Aleksandrovka) – Only 19 polling stations; in two election commissions, heads and secretariesr etired from responsibility but the commissions decided to continue working;
49 precinct (Dobropolye) – just 8 polling stations are not open in Dobropolye, including one station in Dobropolye district
50 precinct (Krasnoarmeysk). In Krasnoarmeysk, six polling stations are not open (out of 55).
58 precinct (Mariupol) – just four polling stations are not open
59 precinct (Mariupol) – 91 polling stations are open, 8 stations are closed;
61 precinct (Volnovakha) – Some of the polling stations have opened but early in the morning polling stations No. 140803, No.140800, No. 140792 have been seized by Donetsk People's Republic representatives;
62 precinct (Starobeshevo)lthe electoral precincts are just receiving the voting bulletins. In Amvrosyevka, some unknown people have broken the windows of many buildings where the precinct election commissions sit.
15:36
25.5.2014
A group of Crimean Tatars drove from Russian-controlled Crimea to neighboring Kherson Oblast to vote in the Ukrainian presidential election. A video from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
15:37
25.5.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service caught up with U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, who said he'd "visited 10 different polling stations this afternoon and...seen thousands of Ukrainians lining up to participate" in the vote. We'll have more complete remarks from Pyatt soon along with the video (it's in Ukrainian HERE), but he did say, "I have seen no particular problems."
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