UKRAINE: NEWSPAPER ACCUSES AUTHORITIES OF STEALING JAIL VOTE.(Brief Article)

From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database | Date: April 18, 2002 | Copyright information

"Ukrayina Moloda" wrote on 4 April that none of the opponents of the pro-presidential For a United Ukraine bloc won a single vote in jails in Luhansk (eastern Ukraine). According to the newspaper, such suspicious unanimity of inmates points to vote rigging. "The intellectual level of those who organized this crude rigging is appalling, "Ukrayina Moloda" wrote, adding, "Even back in Soviet times, when nobody could control the...

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