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Original Story To January 26 (16th day of signature collection), 15 initiative groups of electoral coalition “Ne Tak!” have collected more than 100,000 signatures against Ukraine’s entrance to NATO. On January 25, head of all-Ukrainian movement “Women for future” (part of “Ne Tak!”) Valentina Dovzhenko met with Crimean students and presented the coalition to them, informs a REGNUM correspondent. She explained the meaning of the coalition name — “Ne Tak!” (“Not this way” – contrary to the “TAK!” coalition led by President Yushchenko). She said that lots of things in Ukraine are conducted in the wrong way. She told that only 2 million hectares have been sowed this year, instead of previous 8 million, and that is wrong. Regular pensions have been raised by 12%, but pensions to the ministers in 6.7 or even 8 times, and that is wrong. The GDP rate increase lowered 5 times without any reasons, production capacity lowered 4 times, light industry, mechanical engineering transportation, capital

Public Opinion in Ukraine: Findings from an IFES November 2005 Survey 2 (pdf) This report details key findings from the latest IFES survey in Ukraine. This is the 14th public opinion poll conducted in Ukraine by IFES and some of the findings from earlier surveys will be referenced in this report. The two most recent surveys cited are the February 2005 postelection and September 2004 pre-election surveys. Both these surveys were conducted with 1265 respondents throughout Ukraine. The fieldwork for this most recent survey was conducted from November 2-14, 2005 with 1265 respondents throughout Ukraine. This sample comprised a national sample of 1,200 respondents and an over-sample of 65 respondents in Kyiv. The data has been weighted by region, age, and gender to be nationally representative for the adult (18+) population of Ukraine. The margin of error for a sample of this size is plus/minus 2.75%. IFES worked in collaboration with Democratic Initiatives Foundation in the design and ma

Link http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/10836 Source Razumkov Center Date January, 2006 Name of the party or electoral bloc PR Party of Regions (PR) NS-NU Bloc 'Our Ukraine' (NS-NU) BYuT Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) KPU Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) SPU Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) LPB Lytvyn's People's Bloc (LPB) NVB Nataliya Vitrenko Bloc 'People's Opposition' (NVB) CBP Civil Bloc PORA-PRP' (CBP) UPBKP Ukrainian People's Bloc of Kostenko and Plyusch OBNY Oppositional bloc NOT YES! (OBNY) Party Block Poll% Vote% Seats% No of Seats PR 24.70% 35.59% 36.98% 166

http://www.unian.net/eng/ Number of Electors in Ukraine Reduced by 1.348 Million During Year – to 36.309 Million People – CEC Chairman [16.01.2006 17:42] Compared with the Presidential election in 2004, the number of electors in Ukraine reduced by 1.348 million – to 36.309 million people. Central Electoral Commission chief Yaroslav Davydovych disclosed this to journalists today. According to an UNIAN correspondent, he noted: ‘We have revealed cases, when electors were not excluded from lists upon their death, when electors were recorded in lists of several electoral districts, other cases”. At the same time, Ya.Davydovych does not consider political this reduction of the lists. “It happened due to negligence of local authorities”, said he. By preliminary estimates of the Central Electoral Commission, 514 thousand electors will not be able to come to polling stations themselves (the matter concerns disabled people, old people, etc. – UNIAN).