Voice of America: Ukrainian Ruling Party Faces Election Backlash

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Ukrainian Ruling Party Faces Election Backlash Oct 30th 2012, 01:43 Ukraine's ruling party is facing criticism at home and abroad, even as it appears on course to maintain its majority after Sunday's parliamentary elections. Jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko announced Monday she is launching a hunger strike to protest the vote.  With about 70 percent of the votes counted, her pro-Western Fatherland Party trails President Viktor Yanukovych's ruling Party of Regions, 34 to 23 percent. Tymoshenko's lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, read her ... Media files: D046E4A0-B536-4715-9CE4-E88090610868_cx0_cy8_cw0_w800_r1.jpg?nocache=1 (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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