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The 2008 Ukrainian political crisis started after President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (NU-NS) withdrew from the governing coalition following a vote on a bill (4 September 2008) to limit the President's powers in which the Prime Minister's Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) voted with the opposition Party of Regions.
But in the 2014 parliamentary election Party of Regions did not to participate (because of a perceived lack of legitimacy (of the election), because not every resident of the Donbas could vote) and the CPU came 1.12% short of the 5% election threshold. [30] [31] The results were a victory for the pro-Western parties and a major defeat for the ...
Ukrainian presidential elections determine who will serve as the President of Ukraine for the next five years. [ 1 ] Since the establishment of the position of the President of Ukraine in 1991, presidential elections have taken place seven times: in 1991 , 1994 , 1999 , 2004 , 2010 , 2014 and 2019 .
September – December – 2008 Ukrainian political crisis. 24 December – An explosion in an apartment block in Yevpatoria kills 27 people, leading President Viktor Yushchenko to declare December 26 a day of national mourning.
Massive March storm battering US; tornado watch issued for New Orleans: Live updates. Weather. CBS News. Florida resident recounts riding out hurricane on a sailboat.
Google has updated it's aerial maps of Ukraine for the first time since the start of Russia's attack - with images now revealing the full scale of devastation. The contrast is stark in Mariupol.
According to a telephone poll conducted prior to the election by the Razumkov Centre, 25.2% of the respondents said they would support Vitaliy Klychko for the position of mayor, 24.9% support Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi, 10% support the former city mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko, 6% support current Vice-Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov, and 5.4% said they support the Minister of Internal Affairs ...
As NATO nations try to agree on Ukraine’s push for membership at a summit in Vilnius this week, an earlier gathering casts a long shadow. At a summit in Bucharest in April 2008, NATO declared ...