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Polling stations, like this one in the Crimean capital of Simferopol, opened quietly on September 30
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Ukraine Votes
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Polling stations, like this one in the Crimean capital of Simferopol, opened quietly on September 30President Viktor Yushchenko leaves a Kyiv polling station with his wife, Katerina Chumachenko (front), and his daughter, Vitalina (behind him). Yushchenko signed a decree on April 2 dissolving parliament and ordering new electionsPrime Minister and Party of Regions Chairman Viktor Yanukovych at a polling place in KyivVoter sentiment in the capital buoyed by sunshine and flowersOpinion polls suggest that none of the three leading forces will win an outright majority in the 450-seat Verkhovna RadaA woman casts a ballot in Dnipropetrovsk, in eastern UkraineElection workers check voter-registration lists at a polling station in DonetskInternational election monitors in Ukraine for the voting include 700 people from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)Last-minute ballot-checking in the eastern Ukraine city of Dnipropetrovsk. There are 37 million registered voters in UkraineOrthodox priests consult candidate lists in the capital