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Gas deal still eludes Ukraine and Russia at EU talks

(Reuters) - Ukraine and Russia bargained late into the night on Wednesday but European Union officials trying to broker a deal to resume gas supplies to Kiev as winter sets in said there was still no accord to announce.

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People's Front still ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with 99% of protocols processed – CEC

People's Front of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has gained 22.17% of the vote in the Verkhovna Rada elections now that the Ukrainian Central Election Commission has counted 99% of ballots. The Petro Poroshenko Bloc has received 21.81%.

Data posted on the interactive display at the Central Elections Commission's press center shows that Samopomich has gained 10.99% of the vote, the Opposition Bloc – 9.38%, the Radical Party – 7.44%, and Batkivschyna – 5.68%.

The other parties and blocs have failed to pass the 5% election threshold, to which the nationalist Svoboda party is close with 4.71% of the vote.

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Yatseniuk: People's Front initiates coalition and proposes premier as winner of elections

The People's Front Party, as the leader of parliamentary elections in 2014, initiates the creation of a coalition and proposes the candidacy of prime minister, party leader Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.

"In accordance with European practice, the party that got the first place in the elections must start the process of forming a coalition. I announced the coalition formation principles. If the coalition is formed on these principles, then it would be objective that the leader of the party heads the government. If the coalition is not formed on these principles, then it would be absolutely normal that the other party assumes the process of forming the coalition. And then there will be another prime minister in the country," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.

"We got the first place in the elections," Yatseniuk said, explaining the leadership of the People's Front in the formation of the coalition.

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People's Front prepares its text of coalition agreement - Yatseniuk

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that the People's Front Party has prepared a draft coalition agreement of its own.

"We have prepared a coalition agreement," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday, adding that the project is 2.5 pages long.

According to him, it contains 36 bills that should be passed before the end of the year, and an action plan for the current government concerning the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

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StateOfUkraine twitterde op woensdag 29-10-2014 om 16:25:38 Office of the president of France did not confirm that Mistral will be delivered to #Russia on Nov, 14, as was stated by Russian media today reageer retweet

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StateOfUkraine twitterde op woensdag 29-10-2014 om 15:18:33 Admittedly #Russia resumes offensive in UA after supply delivery by RU #aidconvoy: many reports about shelling by RU in Mariupol&Luhansk reg reageer retweet

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StateOfUkraine twitterde op woensdag 29-10-2014 om 15:27:01 Today Talakivka, a small city in #Mariupol region #Ukraine, was shelled by Russian multiple rocket launchers GRAD. https://t.co/l9qttVAnbM reageer retweet

29.10. Обстреляли Градами пос. Талаковка THE CITY OF TALAKOVKA IS UNDER RUSSIAN GRAD MISSILE ATTACK.

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EuromaidanPR twitterde op donderdag 30-10-2014 om 13:51:20 PM #Yatsenyuk: #Russia will supply gas to #Ukraine based on prepayment method, #EU Com will be guarantor http://t.co/No17xYoXTo |EMPR reageer retweet

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myroslavapetsa twitterde op donderdag 30-10-2014 om 20:40:33 #Russia agrees to lower gas price for #Ukraine: $378 per 1,000 cubic meters in Oct-Dec 2014, $365 in Jan-Mar 2015. Talks to resume tonight reageer retweet

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EuromaidanPR twitterde op donderdag 30-10-2014 om 23:46:39 #Ukraine, Russia, EU agree to natural gas supply deal http://t.co/rS1VhlYmlF via @reuters EMPR News reageer retweet

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BloombergNews twitterde op donderdag 30-10-2014 om 23:35:34 UPDATE: Ukraine signs interim gas deal with Russia: http://t.co/AmYSQCQHb5 reageer retweet

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EuromaidanPR twitterde op donderdag 30-10-2014 om 19:06:27 #UkraineVotes results as of 19:20 by #CEC: 99,67% processed protocols within #Ukraine http://t.co/vvAMjnKWYH |EMPR http://t.co/9rj1wVjOra reageer retweet

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maxseddon twitterde op donderdag 30-10-2014 om 12:36:13 Minsk agreements wilting fast. First Russia says it'll recognize rebel elections; now rebels refuse to hand over border control to Ukraine. reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op donderdag 30-10-2014 om 12:47:41 Online voting in DNR's elections began yday. These are the candidates for PM. Most people only know Zakharchenko (L). http://t.co/2aQGCO7tyR reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op donderdag 30-10-2014 om 13:56:04 I spent two days checking how war-torn Donetsk is going to survive this winter. It isn't pretty: http://t.co/5vqlNhUD0F Photos Dima Lovetsky reageer retweet

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EuromaidanPR twitterde op donderdag 30-10-2014 om 13:05:27 Tragic last 24 hours in the #ATO zone: pro-#Russian militants killed 7 #Ukrainian servicemen, 11 servicemen were... http://t.co/XmWcOGmW8W reageer retweet

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EuromaidanPR twitterde op donderdag 30-10-2014 om 15:05:32 Tense situation in #Eastren #Ukraine over the last 24 hours: #Donetsk, #Debaltsevo and #Luhansk are hot spots... http://t.co/8UiOApPiXZ reageer retweet

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Poroshenko nominates Yatseniuk for premier's post – Twitter

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during a meeting of his political force on Friday asked to back up nomination of Arseniy Yatseniuk for the post of the country's future premier.

"I proposed Block of Petro Poroshenko's faction to nominate Arseniy Yatseniuk for the post of prime minister," says president's official Twitter.

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PoroshenkoEng twitterde op vrijdag 31-10-2014 om 15:37:13 I suggested the faction of "Block of Petro Poroshenko" nominate Arseniy Yatsenyuk to the post of Prime Minister from the future coalition. reageer retweet

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Russian 'aid convoy' arrives in Donetsk and Luhansk

KYIV, October 31 /Ukrinform/. A column of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry has delivered the so-called "humanitarian aid" to Donetsk and Luhansk - with 50 trucks entering each of the two cities, TASS has reported.

"The Russian humanitarian convoy of approximately a hundred vehicles previously divided into two columns. Fifty trucks brought to each of the cities food and building materials weighing about 500 tonnes," reads the statement.

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Yatseniuk orders payment for Russian gas

KYIV, October 31 /Ukrinform/. The Ukrainian Finance Ministry, the National Bank of Ukraine and Naftogaz of Ukraine will start paying for Russian natural gas.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk made a respective instruction at a meeting of the anti-crisis energy headquarters on Friday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported.

"I am instructing the Finance Ministry, the National Bank and Naftogaz of Ukraine, in accordance with the signed trilateral protocol between Ukraine, the EU and our neighbors, to start financial payments under this protocol, both for the gas received and for additional pumping of natural gas by the end of the year," Yatseniuk said.

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Ukraine to buy up to four billion cubic meters of gas this year - Prodan

KYIV, October 31 /Ukrinform/. Ukraine plans to purchase up to four billion cubic meters of gas from Russia this year and has the money to pay for this gas.

Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said this after productive gas negotiations involving the European Commission in Brussels, the 24 news channel reported.

"Ukraine plans to buy up to four billion cubic meters of gas. This is our benchmark... We have the necessary funds," he said.

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Op vrijdag 31 oktober 2014 12:53 schreef Smack10 het volgende:
In de Oekra�ense plaats Krasnoarmiysk zijn de lichamen van 286 vrouwen gevonden. Dat maakte de leider van de zelfuitgeroepen Volksrepubliek Donetsk Aleksander Zahartsjenko vrijdag bekend.
De vrouwen verdwenen volgens de rebellenleider in de tijd dat het Oekra�ense regeringsleger in de stad zat.

Bijna vierhonderd vrouwen werden verkracht en verdwenen, daarvan zijn er nu 286 teruggevonden, stelt de opstandelingenleider.

http://www.nu.nl/buitenla(...)kraine-gevonden.html

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Op vrijdag 31 oktober 2014 13:07 schreef Solstice1 het volgende:
Leuk stukje propaganda van die terroristen. En we moorden en slachten nog ff wat verder.

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maxseddon twitterde op vrijdag 31-10-2014 om 12:17:49 DNR leader tells several hundred people rebels found 286 women's raped bodies in the woods, then pretends he didn't http://t.co/7tw0la3p8s reageer retweet

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Chernobyl “landmark” as safety hood in place

Work on a huge shelter to contain the radioactivity at the site of the deadly Chernobyl nuclear disaster passed a “landmark” moment on Friday.

Effectively the New Safe Confinement NSC is a tough shell around the remains of the nuclear reactor in Ukraine which was destroyed in 1986.

It took a full day to successfully lift the second half to its full height of 110 metres, according to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) which runs the cash fund for the nuclear safety project.

Stretching to 260 metres long, 165 metres wide and weighing more than 30,000 tonnes, it resembles a huge aircraft hangar.

It will be strong enough to withstand a tornado, with a “sophisticated” ventilation system meant to “eliminate” the risk of corrosion so it can last at least 100 years, said the EBRD.

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MaximEristavi twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 16:09:12 Ahead of the Nov 2nd rebel elections, the Eastern Ukraine ceasefire crumbles: 6 Ukraine soldiers killed in the last 24hrs - @NSDC_ua reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 11:32:19 New @UN figures: 4,035 deaths in over 6 months of clashes b/t Ukraine forces, pro-Russian rebels. More than 300 killed in past 10 days alone reageer retweet

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EuromaidanPR twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 10:40:09 #Russia's 4th illegal convoy sent to #Donbas is said to have crossed back. Russia intends sending 5th one http://t.co/f82V9dtjow |EMPR reageer retweet

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Russian emergencies ministry loading up 5th humanitarian aid convoy to Donbass

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ChristopherJM twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 12:32:30 Today's massive column of military vehicles near #Donetsk the 3rd this week. All with Grads, artillery and scores of KAMAZ trucks without plates reageer retweet

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maxseddon twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 12:02:11 Just passed a massive supply column heading towards Donetsk. 62 KAMAZ trucks without license plates, 3 Grads, half a dozen fuel trucks. reageer retweet

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shelomovskiy twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 13:17:06 Huge military convoy is waiting on the eastern entrance to #Donetsk. Armed Kamaz trucks w munitions, Grads, a/a guns http://t.co/STZbxwjksn reageer retweet

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maxseddon twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 08:50:13 My latest from the Donetsk People's Republic, which now has its own bank, supreme court, police — and more elections. http://t.co/c2FxQmbMbC reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 15:42:23 Ukraine rebels to hold election, despite criticism - on upcoming elex by myself and @pete_leonard http://t.co/bSEo67tJ5G reageer retweet

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Last day of pre-election campaign over in Luhansk People’s Republic

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Europe won't recognize vote in eastern Ukraine, Merkel tells Putin

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NSCPress twitterde op vrijdag 31-10-2014 om 23:54:44 The only legitimate local election in eastern #Ukraine will be held Dec 7, as prescribed by Special Status Law signed by Pres Poroshenko reageer retweet

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NSCPress twitterde op vrijdag 31-10-2014 om 23:57:09 As signatory of #MinskProtocol we call on #Russia to join UN SYG, EU, Council of Europe, & intl comm in condemning illegitimate vote planned reageer retweet

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maxseddon twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 17:14:47 These guys are election monitors from the "ASCE," a fake OSCE created to observe east Ukraine rebel elections. http://t.co/2WBdgbao7z reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 18:06:50 The hack pack descends onto the presser of the mysterious ASCE observers here in Donetsk @maxseddon @PaulSonne http://t.co/LlPPbryZV6 reageer retweet

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OSCE twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 21:30:43 No OSCE #observation of so-called “elections” in east #Ukraine Sunday 2 November and no OSCE monitors at polling stations - SG Zannier reageer retweet

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GrahamWP_UK twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 20:33:55 Reps of newly-formed #ASCE strongly criticise #OSCE, say OSCE lost its way, under influence of 'western propaganda'. http://t.co/StZwO4rZMf reageer retweet

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GrahamWP_UK twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 21:11:06 Alessandro Mussolino and Ewald Stadler, middle, represent #ASCE, monitoring #Donetsk elections, in presser today. http://t.co/4DB1buqkJ5 reageer retweet

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GrahamWP_UK twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 21:31:17 Alessandro Mussolino, #ASCE, from Venice, political activist of Forza Italia, speaks of #Donetsk as 'beautiful city'. http://t.co/DE1NmIniU9 reageer retweet

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RolandOliphant twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 22:24:22 Apparently someone sacked Igor Bezler. Didn't know it was possible to sack Igor Bezler. reageer retweet

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ASLuhn twitterde op zaterdag 01-11-2014 om 23:12:15 Has infamous Gorlovka rebel commander Igor Bezler resigned? Gone 100% rogue after unhappy with Sunday's elections? http://t.co/cDZjutEzV5 reageer retweet

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Media: Igor Bezler ontslag

Volgens een aantal berichten in de media, een van de bekendste commandanten van het leger van Nieuw-Rusland, generaal-majoor van het DNI, de commandant van de People's Militia in Gorlovka Igor Bezler afgetreden.

Bevestigd op hun forum geruchten over het ontslag en de eerste minister van Defensie van de Volksrepubliek Donetsk Igor Fusiliers.

"Ik bevestig het ontslag Bezlera" - zei de ex-minister van het DNI.

De vraag "waar hij nu is," zei Igor strelkov:

"Terwijl de" links "op het schiereiland."

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Sham observer org for Ukrainian separatist strongholds invented day before election

There will be a facsimile of an election Sunday in the Donetsk People’s Republic, which is just a faint facsimile of a state. So it’s fitting that a facsimile of an election observer organisation was invented to watch over the process.

The Agency for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or ASCE, was unveiled Saturday evening at a bewildering press conference here in the centre of this war-battered city. The ASCE’s would-be founder - who was evicted last year from Austria’s far-right Freedom Party - changed the new organization’s name back and forth during the press conference, freely switching between calling it the “Agency” and the “Association.” He also slammed Western governments for not respecting Sunday’s vote, and called for European countries to quit the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (the better-known OSCE) and join his new group since the the OSCE had allegedly shown its political bias by refusing to deploy observers to Donetsk and Lugansk for Sunday’s vote.

But the ACSE’s frontman, Ewald Stadler, also admitted he had only been in Donetsk for “five minutes” and fumbled a question about how many monitors the new group would be able to deploy to observe the vote (though he bragged that one of his monitors was an American citizen who was the “grand-nephew of Martin Luther King.”)

The elections Sunday in the Donetsk People’s Republic and adjacent Lugansk People’s Republic were already going to be controversial, even without the advent of the ASCE to watch over them. The votes have been condemned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and most Western governments as a stage-managed sham, though Moscow has already indicated it will recognize them.

The idea of holding elections here is as astonishing and surreal as almost everything about the Donetsk People’s Republic.

Heavy gunfire and shelling could be heard throughout the day, hours before those who haven’t joined the refugee exodus from Donetsk and Lugansk will be asked to choose directly elected prime ministers and “people’s councils.” There’s little question over who will win, with Aleksandr Zakharchneko, the main separatist leader, and his party - the Donetsk People’s Republic - being by far the most visible candidates. The incumbents are also expected to coast to victory in smaller Lugansk.

Complicating the job of any election observation mission, there’s no list of eligible voters in the territories under the separatists’ control, nor a decent estimate of how many people still live in the region.

But Dennis Pushilin, the first head of state of the DPR - and the man who proclaimed its independence following an equally controversial referendum in April - said in an interview that the elections were necessary to give legitimacy to the agenda of creating an independent state.

“We’re moving to the next step. The revolution period has already passed, and now we’re building a new state and we have a lot to do,” he said in what used to be the local Coal Ministry and is now the office of the “People’s Front of Novorossiya,” an organization dedicated to unifying the areas of Donetsk and Lugansk under separatist control. “Novorossiya,” or “New Russia,” is a Tsarist-era term frequently used by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Saturday was a tense day in Donetsk, with heavy fighting around Donetsk’s airport, and multiple sightings of an unmarked military convoy approaching the city from the east. But Mr. Pushilin - a 33-year-old with a murky background including times as a Ponzi scheme salesman - said he believes the ceasefire agreed to in September between the Ukrainian government and the separatist leadership can hold and become something more permanent.

If the ceasefire holds, the next step will be to rebuild the war-damaged region and try and make it attractive enough to lure other Russian-speaking areas of Ukraine into joining it.

“Our main goal is to reconstruct [Donetsk and Lugansk], to build the state system to increase salaries and pensions, and improve our industries. We need to make Novorossiya attractive to other residents of the former Ukraine,” he said.

“I think after several years Europe will realize that we are not separatists, that we are integrating into the greater Russian world. Our goal is not to build a border in the west, but to break down the border in the east.”

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Op zondag 2 november 2014 08:05 schreef Smack10 het volgende:

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Dus de V.S. bepaalt dat alleen de verkiezing die ze zelf in scene hebben gezet door de hele toestand daar te voeden legitiem is.

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myroslavapetsa twitterde op zondag 02-11-2014 om 12:57:38 DNR uses old Soviet trick - selling cheap food on elex day.Kilo of veggies costs 8 US cents-via Ekaterina Sergatskova http://t.co/YDrxbXHmaB reageer retweet

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RolandOliphant twitterde op zondag 02-11-2014 om 06:16:37 Zakharchenko has arrived to vote. In a suit rather than camo, with wife. A politician rather than a soldier today. reageer retweet

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maxseddon twitterde op zondag 02-11-2014 om 09:43:06 Voting underway in the bombed-out village of Petrovskoe, near Saur-Mogila. http://t.co/Q6LPEOz9O0 reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op zondag 02-11-2014 om 10:16:30 Rebel commander Givi voting at the airport: http://t.co/BUQDEfBiZf reageer retweet

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ASLuhn twitterde op zondag 02-11-2014 om 12:41:00 Venetian secessionist from Berlusconi's party observes Donetsk election looking like a boss #rebelvote @EvgenyFeldman http://t.co/GtkeFkqlBY reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op zondag 02-11-2014 om 12:58:38 It's hard to estimate the turnout in the rebel election here in Donetsk: 2 reasons 1/2 reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op zondag 02-11-2014 om 12:59:19 First, there are no electoral rolls to rely on; second, compared to Ukr elex here years ago the number of polling stations is much lower reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op zondag 02-11-2014 om 12:59:51 thus, the sight of the long lines of people outside some polling stations is deceiving. reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op zondag 02-11-2014 om 13:57:35 The election day in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine. what we have seen so far: http://t.co/J8aeVIZu2F reageer retweet

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Op zondag 2 november 2014 10:33 schreef Solstice1 het volgende:

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Wat boeit het nog wat Rusland vindt? Die liegen, bedriegen en moorden rustig verder. Zou ik me als EU, Oekra�ne en andere partijen echt niet meer druk om maken.

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Op maandag 3 november 2014 01:03 schreef Smack10 het volgende:

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Wie was het conflict ook alweer gestart?

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shelomovskiy twitterde op zondag 02-11-2014 om 19:15:16 Off exit polls: Zakharchenko - 81.37%, his #Donetsk rep. party - 65.11%. Observers: no violations, everythng is according to eu practice reageer retweet

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myroslavapetsa twitterde op zondag 02-11-2014 om 23:31:30 #Moscow "respects" the second separatist vote after May, says it's ready for "constructive" steps. Sadly, Ukraine know what it means. War reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op maandag 03-11-2014 om 19:20:57 .@poroshenko has called meeting with @NSDC_ua to reassess Minsk deal, discuss aboloshing special status law. 1/2 http://t.co/I3uFiMs9ip reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op maandag 03-11-2014 om 19:25:27 2/2 But decentralization still in the cards. A new law could be adopted, if DNR/LNR return to Minsk deal agreements, "reverse" yday's elex. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 4 november 2014 00:02 schreef tfors het volgende:
Waarom organiseert Ukra�ne niet snel een referendum in Slavjansk, Mariupol etc. of ze willen afscheiden of niet? Kan me toch niet voorstellen dat veel mensen daar zich willen aansluiten bij Donetsk Republiek. Moeten ze wel snel zijn, denk dat heel binnenkort de Donetsk russische tanks weer naar het westen gaan rollen.