Andriy Melnyk from the Volyn Regional Administration has taken a coordinator for the election watchdog OPORA to court for saying (with corroborating tape) he instructed election commission members how to falsify election results

Valery Chaly Deputy Director of the Razumkov Centre has told the newspaper Gazeta po-ukrainsku that the methods used at October’s parliamentary elections, especially the involvement of the law enforcement bodies, were reminiscent of those in 2004

Ukraine’s National Union of Journalsits has condemned media publications who issued outsiders with journalist ID. It says that in so doing they encouraged dirty election manipulation

The Committee of Voters of Ukraine speaks of deliberate procrastination and infringements during the vote count stage at election commission level and there must be new elections where this distorted the will of the voters

From 30 July to 31 October there were 185 infringements of journalists’ rights, with 115 of these directly linked with the parliamentary elections and / or with those infringing their rights being candidates or MPs.

In a Joint Statement issued by High Representative Catherine Ashton and Commissioner Štefan Füle concern is expressed, on top of previous issues raised, over irreguarities, delays in the vote count and lack of transparency in the electoral commissions

Canada is distressed by the lack of openness, transparency and timeliness that has characterized vote tabulation and notes that this is just the latest of many concerns about elections which did not meet democratic standards

The Kharkiv Human Rights Group has announced its willingness to ensure representation in the European Court of Human Rights of people whose electoral rights were infringed during the parliamentary elections on 28 October

Volodymyr Shapoval plans to approach the High Council of Justice regarding possible breach of oath by the judges who declared the voting at 27 polling stations in single-mandate electoral district No. 94 invalid

The election watchdog OPORA reports that the Central Election Commission has taken the protocols in one of the most controversial single-mandate electoral district commission No. 223 for examination

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has issued a post-election report on the 28 October parliamentary elections and the vote count afterwards. It reports a lack of transparency and strong evidence that election results were falsified

Natalia Korolevska’s party Ukraina Vpered is suing the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology whose survey found that her party would not get into the Verkhovna Rada (it didn’t)

The Head of the PACE Observers and head of the Group of Socialists in the PACE, Andreas Gross has told Ukrainsky Tyzhden that he believes Ukraine is not moving towards authoritarianism, but has already got there.

The Party of the Regions’ “leaders re-crafted the electoral playing field to suit their own needs: changed the election law, gerrymandered the districts, reshuffled election commissions, and endorsed a carte-blanche for all forms of illegal agitation to their loyalists”

The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced on Monday that it could not determine the outcome in five single-mandate electoral districts and adopted a resolution to ask for a revote

Observers are reporting cases where the law enforcement agencies and unknown persons stopped the functioning of DECs, spoiled ballot papers, illegal withdrew protocols of Precinct Election Commissions (PECs), prevented and impeded the ordinary work of commissioners

Thousands of opposition supporters are staging a rally in protest at what they call rigged election results in front of the election commission headquarters in central Kiev, amid a heavy presence of elite anti-riot police units.

OPORA reports that the situation at District Election Commission [DEC] No. 194 in Cherkasy remains unresolved despite the fact that by 3 November two protocols had been signed and stamped, and the results officially announced

Controversy rages and measures raise eyebrows over the vote count at District Election Commission No. 11 in Vinnytsa

The election watchdog OPORA reports that there is mystery as to the whereabouts of the ballot papers for Election District No. 185. Members of the DEC assert that they have handed them over to the archive but have no documents to show confirming this.