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Ukraine: An Election Day In The Life
October 28, 2012 13:23 GMT
Voters across Ukraine went to the polls to choose a new national parliament in elections on October 28. There are some 36 million-plus registered voters in the country, with nearly 34,000 polling stations. Here are scenes from some of them.
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A member of a local election commission carries a ballot box in the village of Vilshanska-Novoselytsa, some 75 kilometers south of Kyiv. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
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A boy peers around the curtain of a voting booth at a polling station in the capital, Kyiv. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)
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Election workers watch as voters take to the polls in the capital.
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President Viktor Yanukovych, whose ruling Party of Regions led polls ahead of the October 28 vote, casts his vote at a polling station in Kyiv.
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Udar party leader Vitali Klitschko, who is still a reigning world heavyweight champion, votes at a Kyiv polling station.
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Webcams were installed -- by whatever means necessary -- at polling stations all over the country in an effort to combat voter fraud.
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The resulting video was streamed to local websites, where anyone could observe events at the polling station of their choice.
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A patient at the hospital in Lugansk, where imprisoned political opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is being treated, was wheeled in on a gurney to vote.
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Yulia Tymoshenko's daughter, Yevhenia, who has campaigned at home and internationally for her mother to be freed, visited a polling station in Dnipropetrovsk. (REUTERS/Sergei Isaev)
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Female inmates cast their votes at the prison in Kharkiv where jailed former Prime Minister Tymoshenko was being held before her health required hospitalization. (REUTERS/Dmitry Neymyrok)
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Prisoners march to an internal polling station at a prison in the eastern Ukrainian industrial city of Makeyevka.
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Ukrainian sailors leave the voting booth as they prepare to cast ballots at a polling station in Sevastopol, on the Black Sea. (AFP PHOTO / VASILY BATANOV)
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A cat naps as voters review their choices at a polling station in Luhansk.
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Former international soccer great Andriy Shevchenko, now a member of the pro-business Ukraine Forward! party, is seen on the monitor of a video camera while talking to the media on election day. (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko)
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Voters mark their ballots in polling booths in Cherkassy.
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Returned ballots are compiled for tallying in Simferopol, Crimea.
Ukraine: An Election Day In The Life
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