Ukraine Rebels Keep Power in Elections In Breakaway Regions -- New York Times
DONETSK, Ukraine — Rebel election committees announced on Monday that the leaders of two breakaway regions in Ukraine had won enough votes to stay in power, as expected, and Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying it “respected” the voting.
The central election committee in Donetsk said that the separatist leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the prime minister of the breakaway region called the Donetsk People’s Republic, had won the balloting there with about 78 percent of the vote. He will now have the title of head of the region. In the other breakaway region, Luhansk, election officials said Igor Plotnitsky had been elected as leader with about 63 percent of the vote.
The European Union and the United States had implored Russia to refrain from recognizing the vote, and the announcement in Moscow again widened a breach with Western governments over strategies for resolving the crisis in Ukraine.
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More News On Yesterday's Elections In Rebel Held Ukraine
Incumbent Donbass leaders Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky win elections - final results -- RT
Igor Plotnitsky wins self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic head elections — CEC -- ITAR-TASS
Mir Luganshchine Party Takes 69,2% of Votes in Luhansk, Plotnitsky Wins with 63,8% -- RIA Novosti
Incumbent Premier wins Donetsk People's Republic head elections — DPR CEC final results -- ITAR-TASS
Acting Prime Minister Zakharchenko Wins Donetsk Election: Election Commission -- RIA Novosti
Rebel vote in east Ukraine returns pro-Russian separatist leaders -- Euronews
Pro-Russian rebel leaders declared winners in eastern Ukraine elections -- CSM
Ukraine pro-Russia rebels hold elections in the east, fueling conflict -- Washington Post
Ukraine crisis deepens after rebel elections in the east -- Reuters
Five Takeaways From Eastern Ukraine's Separatist Vote -- Radio Free Europe
Ukraine has options left -- all bad -- Sebastian Smit, AFP
This photo gives me the impression that only the guy 2nd from the right is used to wearing suits.
ReplyDeleteI always tell my Chinese friends that there is big money to be a top-notch tailor in Moscow .... but sadly no one in the Orient ever bites. A little inside baseball on me James .... on my first trip to Hong Kong in the mid-1980s, the first thing that I did was go to a tailor and have him make me a few tailor-made suits. When I went back to Moscow 6 months later .... everyone in the foreign office .... from the top guy on down .... wanted to know who was my tailor.
ReplyDeleteI told them that it was a state secret.
Heh.
ReplyDeleteWNU,
ReplyDeleteThat's strange, I have a source who claims you were a GUM's model.
I feel busted. :(
ReplyDeleteDuring the early eighties either Chernenko or Andropov (I think it was Andropov) had just become head guy and went to East Germany. I remember they had a "press conference" can't remember of course what was discussed, but I do remember that Andropov/Chernenko had on a new pair of East German shoes that still had the store label on the sole of the (left of course) shoe, where someone had forgotten to remove it. Of course to be fair we had Jimmy Carter and his sweaters to bear as our sartorial burden in the world.
ReplyDeleteThe old guys never cared what they put on or how they looked .... but in all fairness .... it was always better than what Stalin had in his closet.
ReplyDeleteBut in a strange way there is something about the Russian male when it comes to fashion. Most of them (myself included) never care how we look .... if it feel s comfortable then it is OK. The first person who changed that was /is Putin .... followed by former President and now PM Medvedev.
"The old guys never cared what they put on or how they looked" maybe because of Stalin the old guys were just thankful to be alive.
ReplyDeleteExactly James
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