Student group grabbing Ukrainian spotlight ahead of presidential election
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Their name means "It's Time." Their slogan shows a ticking clock, and their ability to bring thousands of students to the streets is spooking the government as the country prepares for Sunday's pivotal presidential election.
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After a tense campaign superheated by allegations of fraud and official interference, Ukraine's weekend presidential election shapes up as a stern test of the ex-Soviet republic's democracy &#151; and whether the country will move closer to Russia's sphere of influence.
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As they cast their ballots on Sunday, supporters of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko could taste victory.
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Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko told orange-clad supporters that his opponents are preparing to disrupt Sunday's presidential runoff, and appealed to them to be ready to defend their vote now that victory is near.
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Area residents of Ukrainian descent are watching and waiting as the standoff in their homeland over the disputed presidential election continues.
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After the first round of voting, the two leading candidates in Ukraineâs presidential elections are running neck and neck. KIEV, UkraineâUkraineâs presidential elections look certain to go to a second
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At first glance it looks like most other images of Ukrainian turmoil of the past two weeks: An emotional throng surges through
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Tens of thousands of supporters of opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko took to the streets of Kiev, a week before the poll, to demand free and fair elections in this former Soviet state after a tense campaign marred by incidents.
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KIEV: Voting began Sunday in Ukraine&#39;s presidential elections, seen as a critical test for the future of democratic development in the former Soviet state, a foreign news agency reported.
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Ukrainians began casting their ballot Sunday in the presidential election to choose a successor to President Leonid Kuchma. A total of 24 candidates were on the ballot to succeed
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Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn hopes that the presidential elections will demonstrate that Ukraine is a democratic and civilized country.
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Ukrainians voted Sunday in a presidential election viewed as a test of democracy in the former Soviet republic and an indicator of whether it will move closer to the West or cultivate its historically close ties to Russia.
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Ukrainian politicians officially began campaigning Thursday for the upcoming parliamentary election, called to resolve a bitter political struggle between the former Soviet nation's two feuding leaders. via Pravda
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Ukrainian police and state security agents searched the apartments of two opposition activists Friday, just over a week before the country's hotly contested presidential election, a news report and an ...
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LVIV, Ukraine -- Students here sent e-mails to friends, prodding them to get to Kiev. Workers traveled back and forth from the Ukrainian capital in shifts. Factory owners were lenient with absences. Entire families sometimes went together.
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Ukrainians look poised to elect a  Western-leaning liberal as president as they began voting on  Sunday, overturning the result of a rigged poll last month that  pitched the ex-Soviet state into turmoil.
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Ukraine's presidential rivals fired up their campaign machines anew ahead of a rerun election, with one candidate at a hospital abroad and the other rallying his support base in the pro-Russian east of the former Soviet republic.