Kyiv`s city council has expressed no confidence in the Central Election Committee. This decision of the Kyiv`s city council has been adopted at the extraordinary meeting, The “proUA.com” was informed by the Kyiv city council press center. The Kyiv city council has also appealed to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine do not recognize the run off returns by the Central Election Committee.
Senator Richard Lugar, the senior US observer of the Ukrainian presidential elections says that the incumbent Government helped rig the vote in favour of the pro-Moscow Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovich. "It is now apparent that a concerted and forceful program of election-day fraud and abuse was enacted with either the leadership or cooperation of governmental authorities," Mr Lugar, the chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters.
A source in President’s team has informed “Glavred” that Leonid Kuchna has left Kyiv. As said by the source, the escape could be connected with not only the interests of security, but also by the fact that the President is urged to surrender power to the parliament, Verkhovna Rada.
Ivano-Frankivsk city council by its decision recognized the leader of the bloc “Our Ukraine” Viktor Yushchenko a President elected in the run off on November 21, and ruled to obey his orders and commands. The decision “On support of the President that won a nation-wide vote in Ukraine” was reached at the 19th extraordinary session of the city council, on Monday, November 22, the Ukrainski Novini inform.
On December 10, 1948 the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed. This document has endowed every dweller of Earth with a right for dignified living and observance of his or her civil freedoms. In today’s Belarus this declaration is violated shamelessly, far and wide. Lukashenka’s regime is trying to deprive us of freedom of speech and peaceful assemblies and associations, a right for fair elections and a dignified life. The Zubr movement calls upon everybody to come to the October Square in Minsk on December 10 at 6 p.m. We planned to gather on October 26, but today we state that we shall carry out a rally with all democratic forces, with our people, in support of our right for dignified life and free choice on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclamation.
The second round of Ukraine’s presidential election, in which Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich has opened up an unassailable lead, failed to meet many criteria for democratic polls, the Reuters news agency quoted Western monitors as saying on Monday.
A tent camp is pitched in the Independence Square in Kyiv. “We are not going to seize anything. Today before 4 p.m. we are to put up 1,500 tents in the Independence Square and up to Bessarabka. I do not urge you to fight to a finish, I call upon you to struggle till we win,” told MP of the Verkhovna Rada Yuri Lutsenko. He said that 100,000 people are on the square now, and by 4 p.m. they will be 200,000. People are to demand extraordinary session of the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada), in order to express distrust to the Central Election Committee and deny the election results in several polling stations in Donetsk and Lugansk regions, where hundreds of grave violations of law were registered. As said by opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, the protest is to continue until the truthful results of elections announced.
Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukrainian opposition leader, accused the authorities last night of “total fraud” in a landmark presidential election seen as a proxy struggle between Russia and the West and called on his supporters to stage a peaceful protest in Kiev this morning.
Tens of thousands of opposition supporters have rallied in the main square of Ukraine`s capital to protest what they say is fraud in Sunday`s run-off presidential election.
A rally that has gathered thousands of supporters of Viktor Yushchenko, leader of the “Our Ukraine” bloc, continued today at 9 a.m. in the Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) in Kyiv. The participants of the mass meeting are holding flags with election campaign’s cembols. Police do not interfere, the Ukrainski Novivi informs.
Addressing thousands of people who gathered in the Independence Square in Kyiv, opposition candidate for presidency Viktor Yushchenko called upon the Ukrainians for organized resistance movement to protect honest elections. Yulia Tymoshenko urges everybody to stop their work and studies and start a strike, the Ukrainski Novini informs.
About 40,000 people have gathered for the meeting on the Independence Square in Kyiv, their quantity is growing with every minute Viktor Yushchenko, ex-presidential candidate, leader of the Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Party Anatoliy Kinakh, deputy head of the parliament, Verkhovna Rada, Mr.Yushchenko’s campaign head Olexandr Zinchenko, chairman of the Committee on Budget of the Verkhovna Rada Petro Poroshenko, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. Yevhen Chervonenko, and co-chairman of the coalition “Power of people”, MP Yulia Tymoshenko. Dozens of thousands of people are listening for the address of Viktor Yushchenko, reacting to his words by chanting “Yushchenko is President! Kuchma- away with you!”
An overwhelming majority of the Ukrainian citizens casting ballots in Belarus voted for Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, while his West-leaning rival, Viktor Yushchenko, trailed far behind in the runoff round of the Ukrainian presidential elections held on November 21.
The Russian government projects the amount of next year’s gas deliveries to Belarus at 18.6 billion cubic meters, a source with the gas giant Gazprom told BelaPAN.
The European Union is expected to ban some Belarus officials from its territory and freeze bilateral links between member states and Minsk to protest what it called fraudulent elections in the former Soviet republic. An EU diplomat said a tentative list of candidates for exclusion included the head of the state electoral commission, the head of the KGB security service, a deputy interior minister and the head of the presidential administration.
The results of last month`s national elections in Belarus show that the window for reform has closed for the "near term," according to an international observer of those elections who recently spoke to an RFE/RL audience.
Ukraine`s pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko appealed to Europe on Monday to put pressure on the government to concede defeat in Sunday`s presidential election.
Two opposition leaders expressed certainty that the world community would revisit alleged human rights abuses in Belarus despite the UN General Assembly human rights committee’s refusal to consider a highly critical resolution targeting Belarus.
Voters across Ukraine returned to the polls today in the run-off presidential election between two candidates who virtually tied in the first round of voting last month, and who represent two very different courses for a nation bridging Russia and the West.
Mikhail is a former air force officer who has just returned from the Ivory Coast to his native Belarus, one of thousands of soldiers of fortune from the former Soviet Union that fight for money in war-torn Africa. The involvement of Belarussian mercenaries in the continent was highlighted earlier this month, when they were alleged to have been piloting planes that carried out a fatal attack on French peacekeepers in the Ivory Coast.
As of 8 a.m., Monday November 22, the Central Election Committee of Ukraine has counted 75.24% of protocols of the electoral commissions. According to the recent information, candidate of the authorities, Viktor Yanukovych is in narrow lead with 48.65% of votes. According to the CEC, the opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko was supported by 47.72% of voters, the Ukrainski Novini informs. Meanwhile, according to the latest figures of the parallel vote count, carried out by Yushchenko’s team, counting protocols with “moist” seals, 52.84% of voters have chosen Viktor Yushchenko, while Viktor Yanukovych has 42.31%. THe count continues. The opposition leader called upon the Ukrainians, all his supporters to come to the Independence Square in Kyiv at 9 a.m., as it is the “only possibility to defend their choice”. “A citizen that had a choice, now should learn to defend it,” told Viktor Yushchenko.
The population of Belarus was 9,812,900 as of October 1, according to the latest data of the Ministry of Statistics and Analysis. Since the beginning of 2004, deaths outnumbered births by 37,300, although the total number of deaths, 104,200, was smaller by 2,600 than in the same period of 2003.
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