On 3/29/2014 6:12 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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> http://www.rferl.org/contentlive/live-blog-ukraine-crisis/25312563.html
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> Short piece from our news desk on Klitschko.
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> Ukrainian politician Vitali Klitschko says he has decided against contesting snap presidential elections in May. Addressing a congress of his UDAR (Punch) party on Saturday, the boxer-turned-politician said he would instead back the candidacy of billionaire businessman Petro Poroshenko.
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> Klitschko said Poroshenko "enjoys the strongest public support." Poroshenko announced late Friday that he would stand in the presidential race.
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> Parliament called the early election -- scheduled for May 25 -- after voting to oust President Viktor Yanukovych in February, following three months of antigovernment protests.
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> Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who was Yanukovych's chief political rival, has also announced she plans to run again for president.
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> Candidates have until April 4 to register.
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> [email protected] wrote:
>> This is not good at all.
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>> http://www.rferl.org/contentlive/live-blog-ukraine-crisis/25312563.html
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>> 12:59
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>> https://twitter.com/MaximEristavi/statuses/449861539890089984
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>> Maxim Eristavi
>> @MaximEristavi
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>> Klitschko quitting the race, leaving post-revolutionary Ukraine with the Oligarch vs Oligarch choice is just tragic pic.twitter.com/mVRMNxIObY
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>> 3:52 AM - 29 Mar 2014
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