During the snap Presidential elections scheduled for 25 May 2014, 213 district election commissions will function on continental Ukraine. The Central Election Commission, which is authorized to organize, prepare, and conduct the election process, has announced that it's impossible to create DECs for the Presidential election in 12 territorial election districts in Crimea and Sevastopol. None of the candidates have submitted any candidacies to membership of DECs on occupied territories. On...

In this analytical report, we've tried to "grab the tongue" of our candidates for the President of Ukraine. The objects of our study were texts of election programs, published on the site of the Central Election Commission. We've downloaded them and selected the texts of election promises. We used the programming language R for analytical processing of texts. Before processing the texts, we deleted double spaces, numbers, and "noise words" ("stop words"). Besides that, all the letters...

Within the monitoring campaign, OPORA attracts observers in every Ukrainian oblast to the conduction of long- and short-term observation during snap Presidential election, interim Parliamentary elections (district #83), and special local elections. In 2014, the course of election campaign from official start to the announcement of winners will be analyzed by 190 long-term observers. Two thousand of short-term observers will join them on the Election Day (in every round). Besides that, OPORA w...

Presidential candidates understand that while Ukrainian voters are focused on events that are decisive for their country, the excessive use of traditional advertising can have the opposite effect. On the basis of information provided by OPORA's observers, we can make a conclusion that the candidates have focused their campaigning efforts in the central, southern, and eastern oblasts of Ukraine, and have to resort to non-standard methods.

TV program "Before You Vote" is a joint project of the Civil Network OPORA and Hromadske TV, aimed to inform citizens about the course of election campaign and help them to become knowledgeable voters. In this part: fast questioning of Olha Bohomolets, Valerii Konovaliuk, and Zorian Shkiriak; briefly and clearly about functions of the CEC, DECs, and PECs; "portraits" of another four Presidential candidates; and adventures of observer Anatolii Bondarchuk.

On 30 April 2014, at 11:30 AM in the UNIAN Information Agency (4 Khreshatyk St.), the press-conference titled "Interim summary of observation conducted by OPORA: safety and guarantees of free elections" will be held by the Civil Network OPORA. During the event, Parliamentary and Electoral Programs Coordinator of the Civil Network OPORA Olha Aivazovska will present the interim report on the summary of election monitoring campaign in April, and tell about main tendencies in this year's race...

Coordinator of the Right Sector in Chernihiv oblast Maksym Konashevych – is a busy person. During our conversation, he answered the phone at least six times. Young entrepreneur, whose business is connected to housing services, had left for evening patrolling after an hour-long meaningful conversation. This is how Civil Network OPORA managed to get behind the scenes of the most interesting political association in Chernihiv oblast.

TV program "Before You Vote" is a joint project of the Civil Network OPORA and Hromadske TV, aimed to inform citizens about the course of election campaign and help them to become knowledgeable voters. In this part: fast questioning of Petro Syminenko, Renat Kuzmin and Vasyl Tsushko; 11 principles of electoral legislation and democratic elections; and adventures of Sviatoslav Babilia, the observer.