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March 8, 2010
Focus on Ukraine March 1-7, 2010
The Verkhovna Rada sacked the government of Yulia Tymoshenko. A total of 243 members of parliament voted in favor of the resolution of no-confidence in the Cabinet of Ministers. Yulia Tymoshenko announced her move to the opposition after a meeting of the BYuT faction.

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March 1, 2010
Focus on Ukraine, February 22-28, 2010
Viktor Yanukovych officially took office as the President of Ukraine. Prior to his inauguration Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kyryl visited Kyiv upon the invitation of Yanukovych get the patriarch’s blessing as the new president in the Kyivo-Pecherska Lavra. The inauguration procedure was held in the Verkhovna Rada, where Viktor Yanukovych took the oath of the president. After taking the oath the newly elected head of state took over command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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February 22, 2010
Focus on Ukraine, February 15-21, 2010
Yulia Tymoshenko recalled her claim against the CEC she submitted to the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine. The premier said she sees no sense in further consideration of the claim due to the lack of desire to establish the objective truth in the case and a formal approach to the claim. Specifically, she said the court refused to study the base evidence on which the claim was grounded and turned the functions of the CEC in tallying the voting results into an essentially arithmetic process without any confirmation of its substantiation.

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February 15, 2010
Focus on Ukraine, February 8-14, 2010
The Central Election Commission official announced the leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych the newly elected president of Ukraine. According to the results of the CEC, 48.95% (12,481,266) of the votes went to Yanukovych, while 45.47% (11,593,357) went to Tymoshenko. 4.36% (1,113,051) did not support any of the candidates.

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February 8, 2010
Focus on Ukraine, February 1-7, 2010
Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Andriy Mahera announced that the second round of the presidential elections in Ukraine has taken place. According to the data of the National Exit Poll 2010 organized by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and the Razumkov Centre, Viktor Yanukovych garnered 48.5% of the votes, while his opponent Yulia Tymoshenko took 45.7%.

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February 1, 2010
Focus on Ukraine, January 25-31, 2010
The Verkhovna Rada dismissed Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko. The opposition PoR was the initiator of Lutsenko’s dismissal. Among the grounds for the minister’s dismissal were involvement in “pre-election canvassing”, “interference in the election process” and “abuse of power on the part of police officers during the conflict over the Ukrainian printing house”. Lutsenko denied the accusations explaining that this is how the PoR decided to disrupt a normal election process.

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January 25, 2010
Focus on Ukraine, January 18-24, 2010
Viktor Yanukovych won the first round of the presidential elections. The final data were made public at the press center of the Central Election Commission. Yanukovych garnered 35.32% of the votes, Yulia Tymoshenko – 25.05% and Serhiy Tihipko – 13.06%. Arseniy Yatsenyuk took in 6.96% of the votes, while Viktor Yushchenko won 5.45% of the votes. The results of the rest of the runners: Petro Symonenko – 3.55%, Volodymyr Lytvyn – 2.35%, Oleh Tyahnybok – 1.43% and Anatoliy Hrytsenko – 1.2%.

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January 18, 2010
Focus on Ukraine, January 11-17, 2010
Ukraine elected its president. As of 20:00 the Central Election Commission reported that nearly 67% of voters showed up at voting stations. According to date of the National Exit Poll 2010 the head of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych leads the way in the presidential elections with 31.3% of the votes. Yulia Tymoshenko is in second place with 27.1% of the votes.

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January 11, 2010
Focus on Ukraine, January 4-10, 2010
CEC member Mykhailo Okhendovskiy informed that the Kyiv Appellate Administrative Court threw out the appeal of Yulia Tymoshenko and confirmed the legitimacy of the decision of the CEC regarding the procedure for voting at home and entering voters onto voting lists on the day of the election.

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January 4, 2010
Focus on Ukraine, December 28, 2009-January 3, 2010
President Viktor Yushchenko gave a summary of 2009 and his tenure in office in his televised New Year’s greetings to the Ukrainian people.

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