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Link http://www.regnum.ru/english/582285.html   Source Institute of social and political psychology Date February 7,2006 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 22.11% 28.35% 30.14% 136 ...

The possible winners of the parliamentary election in Ukraine according to the recent poll If the election is on coming Sunday, only six parties and blocs will get over the three-percent barrier to Verkhovna Rada, the opinion poll proved. Extract of report published on ForUm January 24-31, the Sociological Research Centre conducted the opinion poll by the request of the Democratic Choice civil organization. According to the results of the poll, the Party of Regions would get 26.3%, BYuT – 18.9%, NSNU – 10.7%, Socialist Party of Ukraine – 9.1%, Vitrenko’s Bloc People’s Opposition – 6.3%, the Communist Party of Ukraine – 4.2%, Lytvyn People’s Bloc – 2.9%, PORA-PRP – 2.7%, Opposition Bloc “Ne Tak!” – 2.3%. 3.2% of voters would vote against all candidates, 6.7% - would not choice any candidate. The other blocs and parties would win 1% of the votes. The respondents were asked a question about their willing to take part in the election: 64% said “yes,” 21% - “rather ‘yes’ than ‘no,’” 6% - f...

Link http://en.for-ua.com/news/2006/02/06/153854.html Source Sociological Research Centre Date February 6,2006 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 26.30% 32.07% 33.42% 150 NS-NU 10.70% 13.05% 13.60% 61 BYuT 18.90% 23.05% 24.02% 108 KPU 4.20% 5.12% 5.34% 24 SPU 6.70% 8.17% 8.51% 38 LPB 2.90% 3.54% 3.68% 17 NVB 6.30% 7.68% 8.01% 36 CBP 2.70% 3.29% 3.43% 15 UPBKP 0.00% 0.00% OBNY 2.30% 2.80% Others 1.00% 1.22% Sum 82.00% 100.00% 100.00% 450 Informal 0.00% not vote 0.00% no response 0.00% Balance Unknown 18.00% Summary Stats 100....

As Russia and Ukraine continue to fight over gas distribution, Market share and price The attached map shows the current and proposed distribution of gas to Europe. In reality the building or alternative gas pipelines provide for redundancy security and whilst Ukraine will loose out as alternative transportation options come online Europe's gas supplies becomes more reliable and more competitive in the process. More options more competition (In theory anyway)

by Jeremy Page, Kiev ` ( The times - The Australian ) February 04, 2006 VIKTOR Yanukovich, the burly former convict and then prime minister of Ukraine, looked like a broken man a little more than a year ago. His victory in a presidential election had just been overturned after a fortnight of massive protests centred in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. Viktor Yushchenko, who led the Orange Revolution and went on to win the election rerun, was being hailed around the world as a democratic hero who had wrenched the country of 47 million people out of Russia's stifling embrace. Mr Yanukovich was vilified as a Kremlin stooge. Now, Mr Yanukovich, who has a newly refurbished office in the centre of Kiev, has a defiant gleam in his eye. And with good reason. He is not just back at the forefront of Ukrainian politics: he is also on the verge of snatching back power from under the noses of the Western governments that so enthusiastically embraced the Orange Revolution. "It is high time to ...

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...