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• Nov 23, 2009: EU observers start monitoring Ukraine election campaign (Ria Novosti, 2009)
• Nov 06, 2009: Nomination of candidates ends in Ukraine (ITAR TASS, 2009) Nomination of presidential candidates ends in Ukraine on Friday. Who have registered until now?
• Nov 04, 2009: Economist Vitrenko To Run for President of Ukraine (EIRNS, 2009) Press Release on the nomination of Natalia Vitrenko
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• Oct 19, 2009: Ukraine begins presidential election campaign (Ria Novosti, 2009)
• Oct 19, 2009: Yanukovych leads polls ahead of Ukraine’s presidential election, Ria Novosti (2009)
• Oct 14, 2009: Ukrainian presidential candidates to register Oct. 19-Nov. 13 (Ria Novosti, 2009)
• Apr 14, 2009: Ternopil Oblast votes are in; scandals drag on, Kyiv Post (2009) Two weeks after the Ternopil local elections its result is still disputed.
• Oct 16, 2008: President dissolves parliament, schedules elections for December 7, Ukrinform (2008) This article is announcing that Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved the Verkhovna Rada of the sixth convocation and scheduled early parliamentary elections for December 7, 2008.
• May 23, 2008: Ukraine: The campaign that could change voting patterns, Unian (2007) The author of this article says that three important factors in the current campaign are identifiable and will likely affect the vote: [1] apathy, [2] the use of American campaign consultants and [3] a new battle for Eastern voters.
• May 23, 2008: Nothing personal (Analysis of pros and cons of various coalition designs), Zerkalo Nedeli (2007) The authors of this article have made an attempt to analyze pros and cons of various coalition designs for the key figures and society after the Pre-term parliamentary elections in Ukraine held on 30 September, 2007.
• May 23, 2008: Five political forces win seats in sixth Ukrainian parliament according to final election results, Interfax Ukraine (2007) Central Election Commission Chairman Volodymyr Shapoval announced the official results of the early parliamentary elections of September 30, 2007, in Kyiv on Monday.
• May 23, 2008: Ukraine still waits for government, UNIAN (2007) While a government coalition including the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) and Our Ukraine-People`s Self-Defense Bloc (OU-PSD) has seemed likely since preliminary results were released, the lengthy negotiations suggest that this is not a done deal.
• May 23, 2008: Yushchenko to back up government appointment, Unian (2007) President Victor Yushchenko assured that he will make all steps necessary for the new government to begin functioning, according to the President`s press-office.