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In case you are interested in Ukrainian or Russian language links, some of them are available in a Finnish version of the article. Very few electoral blocs or parties offer also English versions of their materials, so one way of developing the articles further would be translations. http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainan_parlamenttivaalit_2006 81.175.152.26 06:21, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
In case if you are interested in developing the topic, here is the advice from the local intellectual: concentrate on the very few electoral blocs or parties (really about 5) :). All the rest are just marginal puppets created due to the lacks of electoral legislation. Please don't add info on all of the parties -the Category:Politics of Ukraine is already littered with mere crap. Ukrained 14:24, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Hear! hear! The Dutch version mentions the ones likely to top the 3%. Including outsiders like Lytvyn and Vitrenko that adds up to seven "blocks". Muumi 00:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Anyone who feels like:
Is there ambiguity in the possible translation of "НЕ ТАК" in "Опозиційний блок НЕ ТАК!"? I would say it means "not like that", but Halyna Bondaruk uses "not yes" in her translation here. Anyone? (Apart from the 'feeling' that the name of that party starts in Ukrainian, but ends in Russian !?) Muumi 07:01, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Sorry but what is this map meant to represent? The expected % votes? Between whom, PR and NSNU? I think a legend will be nice for a start. Otherwise I assume this is just the breakdown of Ukraine into different regions, in that case I would like to see the colour gamma to be changed into more neutral tints.-- Kuban Cossack 17:41, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I agree that using orange and blue colours associated with the parties/blocs is not a good idea. This map's purpose is only to show the boundaries of the electoral regions, not indicate past, present, or presumed future political support. Neutral grey tones may be better, or patterns. Perhaps the most neutral solution is to use heavy lines for the borders and leave all the regions the same colour, and only use tone to show the boundaries of countries and water. — Michael Z. 2006-02-23 22:13 Z
FYI, I've changed a piped link to here from the Current events to read "Verkhovna Rada" rather than "Parliament". I thought it would be appropriate since English uses words such as Duma, Soviet, Knesset, Jamahiriyya, etc. ← Humus sapiens ну? 21:48, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
What is the point of blanking by a law of a country that WP is not in? I am restoring it-- Kuban Cossack 01:32, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Nothing prevents the readers (including from Ukraine) to go to non-Ukrainian sites to look for this info or to watch foreign TV, listen to foreign radio or read the foreign press. Let's do our part that the info they access to is at least correct.
No one should attempt to suppress the legally obtained information from being published legally. Wikipedia is under the US jurisdiction as it the US corporation and its servers are US based. We use US copyright law. Similarly, the US laws on the information dissimination apply, of which the First Amendment is the main basis. Nothing can prevent the editor from not contributing to the issues which he would rather not see published. OTOH, it doesn't give anyone a right to supress the info published by others just becuase s/he claim the Ukrainian law which in this case doesn't apply. -- Irpen 02:40, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm think that law applies only to new polls, ie: sociological services or anyone else cannot conduct and publish polls in the last two weeks before the election; as you can see the polls are still visible here: http://uv.ukranews.com/r6/rating/list.html. In either case Wikipedia is not Ukraine. -- Berkut 02:44, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
I think that there should be a section about the sad events of the murder of a communist in western ukraine from people of "orange revolution". Also, in donetstk ,at the election day ,the communist party secretary in the regional branch was attacked and is in hospital. It is not sure if he will survive. His name is Ilya Morozov. The communist leader Symonenko described these elections as the most expensive and dirty elections.
This describes an enviroment of terror and fear. This article should incorporate these data, unless here is written anything that keep up with western propaganda as in the case of Belarus.
first of all, i am not from russia. I was born and live in Hellas (Greece). Of course, the most important are the facts and not what everyone, even Symonenko, said. However,it is difficult to consider OSCE as an independent and reliable organization. you see OSCE does not find any ploblem when in Latvia almost 20% of population does not have the right to vote, or even to have the property of citizenship, because their fathers came in the country after the 30s.Also, OSCE and western media consider fair the Georgian elections where Saakashvili gain 97% of votes!!!! they do not have problem if political parties are illegal, like the communist parties in Lithuania,Latvia, Esthonia and other countries.they do not find any problem in Czech republic, even if there is an attempt to make illegal the KSM just a few months before the elections. Even in my country the media coverage of parties'activities is unfair . and i am talking about parliamentary parties.Again no problem. there are not really independent international organizations. it is a matter of power. People like me are not against western world, but against western policies and interference in other countries politics. I do not hate anyone, but i do not like pretenders of justice and fairness. you see OSCE and european union favorite subject is Belarus'elections. Really did you hear about the fake exit poll in belarus , which was ready days before the elctions, showing the opposition candidate winning the elections.it is lithuania behind this. as far as my interest in ex-ussr countries, i do not have problem to admit that i consider Russian people as our brothers. You see i am eastern orthodox and a long historical tradition connects russia and my country.i do not intend to write anything more in the future about this specific subject.
Are there some links between the new parties and those late parties? If anybody can help me, I will be very glad. Checco 12:58, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Truly nobody knows something about these parties... Checco 14:53, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
What is the source for the number of seats won by each party? The CEC website does not give this information anywhere I can find. And what is the meaning of "Viche"? Adam 06:58, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Could someone explain to me how it is that allegedly ksenofobic and fascist galician voted for the more moderate Yushchenko while the heartland voted for the Timoshenko which is said to be radical and russofobic?
The pattern seems to be that the more rural and exclusively Ukrainian-speaking areas remained loyal to Yushchenko, whereas Kiev and the more cosmopolitan, but still Ukrainian-identifying, central areas voted for Timoshenko because they want faster progress towards economic reform. The Russian areas voted for Yanukhovich. Incidentally, is Timoshenko related to Marshall Semyon Timoshenko? Adam 11:39, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
I think it should be a general rule at Wikipedia that nothing anyone says about the politics of their own country should be believed. I don't think any of the three major candidates are thieves, although Timoshenko certainly has some dubious associations. Adam 12:01, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Dear Adam, from where you live (Melbourne, Australia), you can't judge Yulia Timoshenko. People can change for the better! I do agree with the rest of your post. Some "political opinions" look more like propaganda for the country of the writer of it. Mariah-Yulia 16:07, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
It's hard to tell if the question is a troll, just like the immediately proceeding answer. Just in case anyone really wants to know the answer is obvious. Because the voters of Halychyna aren't fascists nor is Yulia Tymoshenko a radical. Of course there are some nationalists in Lviv and other Ukrainian cities, ranging from pseudointellectuals to simple thugs, just as there are in any European (or American) city, but they don't play any significant role. In fact the problem is far less significant then it is in the Old Europe as there are hardly any third world immigrants
This seems to be a question of semantics. Ukrainians want their country to be free, want to speak Ukrainian, send their sons to Ukrainian schools and worship God in Ukrainian churches. In Europe this is called patriotism but in Russia it's called "bourgeoisie nationalism". Hence Russians consistently write about nationalism in places were one would in English write patriotism.
As for the vote, when one looks at actual percentage of the votes cast in diffent oblast, instead of a colored map, there's no apparent geographical clusterization with the two parties going neck and neck in some regions and pretty far apart in others. Simply the people had a choice between two patriotic center-right parties, with slightly diffrent programs (BYuT seemed to put a stronger emphesize of bringing criminals to justice while NU on economic development) and chose based on diffrent factors. BYuT, having the luxery of being an opposition party did better overall, in the western regions also did pretty good but slightly more people voted for NU there. No hidden mechanisms need to be introduced to explain the situation.
BTW you map is wrong BYuT was 2nd in Tiachiv.
Can someone show me where at the CEC website the data on the number of seats won by each party can be found? Adam 00:49, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Spasibi. Adam 06:39, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
No-one has told me yet what the "Viche party" is. Adam 07:05, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Considering that this ongoing and quite heated crisis can result in dissolving the current Rada, do we need an article on Ukraine parliament crisis, 2006? ( Igny 02:18, 30 July 2006 (UTC))