THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 2006
2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 42; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00344890600951908
ISSN1749-4001
Autores Tópico(s)Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted to the Britain‐Ukrainian Legal Association, whose financial support made the research on which this project is based possible. Particular thanks are due to my friend and colleague Mariusz Sielki of Sciences‐Po in Paris for advice and assistance in Kyiv during the elections. Notes 1. A city on the Romanian border that had been part of Romania between 1918 and 1940. 2. Donetsk is a large almost exclusively Russian‐speaking city in eastern Ukraine, dominated by a large steel industry. The wealth of the steel industry gave Donetsk's businessmen the resources to enter the political arena both locally and nationally. The Donetsk ‘clan’ under the Kuchma regime was perceived as one of the most influential – and ruthless – regional business clans on the Ukrainian political scene. 3. The Party of the Regions – like all Ukrainian political parties with the exception of the Communists – is a party of the rich; the only difference in this instance is that the Party of the Regions boasts the support of Ukraine's very wealthiest, including Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man and now a Party of the Regions deputy. 4. Source: Democratic Initiatives Foundation. Methodology: Interviews to 2,040 Ukrainian adults, conducted from 4 to 15 February 2005. The margin of error is 2.3 per cent. See http://foreignpolicy.org.ua/eng/headlines/society/opinion/index.shtml?id = 4244. 5. Author interview with Pavlo Klimkin, deputy head of mission, Ukrainian Embassy, London, 24 January 2006.
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