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Polling stations set up in Ukraine ahead of crucial vote

2014-05-24 121 Dailymotion

Ukrainians are making final preparations for Sunday's presidential election -- three months after Moscow-backed president Viktor Yanukovich fled the capital in the face of a street uprising.<br/> <br />Election officials are distributing polling cards to almost 34,000 polling stations across the country.<br/> <br />Some 35.5 million people are eligible to vote.<br/> <br />Contingency plans have been made for those in the east who may face disruptions from pro-Russian separatists -- and minority Tatars in Crimea.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) OLEG KUPRIIYENKO, HEAD OF KIEV REGIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION, SAYING:<br/> <br />"The people who live in the east and in Crimea and have no possibility for voting for whatever reasons -- and we all know what the reasons are -- they were given the opportunity to apply to the electoral authorities to change their place of voting and exercise their voting rights in any other place of their choice."<br/> <br />Opinion polls suggest confectionary magnate Petro Poroshenko will w

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