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.
Ukrainian Election Day In Pictures
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A boy peers from behind a curtain at a polling station in Kyiv.
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A member of a local election commission carries a ballot box to voters in the village of Vilshanska-Novoselytsa, some 75 km south of Kyiv.
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A polling station in Lviv
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A soldier from the presidential regiment holds identification while waiting to vote in Kyiv.
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Elderly women check a ballot in the village of Rusaki.
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Navy sailors leave the voting booth in Sevastopol.
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Prisoners march to an internal polling station at a prison in the industrial east Ukrainian city of Makeyevka
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Inmates cast their votes at the prison in Kharkiv where jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was held before being sent to hospital.
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An Orthodox priest leaves a ballot booth at a polling station in Kyiv.
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An woman casts her ballot in the village of Prybirs, some 100 kilometers from Kyiv.
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A former parliamentary speaker and candidate for president in 2010, United Opposition movement leader Arseny Yatsenyuk, and his wife Theresa vote in Kyiv.
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A woman casts her vote at a polling station in Kyiv.
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A patient votes at a hospital in Lviv.
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Ukrainian presidential regiment troops wait at a polling station in the capital.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych holds his ballot at a polling station in Kyiv.