Russia recognized elections to the Verkhovna Rada

Moscow recognized the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine as held. According to Interfax, the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Grigory Karasin announced this. At the same time, he noted that the election campaign in Ukraine was "tough and dirty."

“The alignment of the forces, which is still looming, probably allows the leadership of Ukraine to seriously begin to solve the root problems of its society,” Karasin added.

On October 23, the head of the presidential administration, Sergei Ivanov, said that Moscow recognizes elections to the Verkhovna Rada. “We want Ukraine to enter some normal civilized course so that it is not a state of hostile to Russia, which is capable of maintaining itself,” he said, speaking at the Valdai forum.

According to the results of processing, 43 percent of the ballots on party lists in the Rada pass five parties. “Blok Poroshenko” is gaining 21.476 percent of the vote, the “People’s Front” - 21.61 percent. Four more parties overcome the five percent barrier: the Radical Party of Oleg Lyashko (7.38 percent), Yulia Tymoshenko (5.72 percent), Opposition Bloc, uniting former representatives of the Party of Regions (9.73 percent), and the “self -help of the mayor of Lviv, Andrei Sadovaya (11.13 percent).

The Radical Party "Freedom", the Communist Party of Ukraine and the "strong Ukraine" of the former deputy prime minister Sergei Tigipko do not go to the parliament.

In single -mandate districts, mainly self -nominates defeat. Also, 57 Majorian candidates from the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc”, including the son of President Alexei, 17 candidates from the party Arseniy Yatsenyuk, four representatives of the Fatherland and Freedom, take place to the Verkhovna Rada. Two more candidates are won from the “opposition bloc” and the agrarian association “STUPLE”, from the “Right Sector” (the party leader Dmitry Yarosh, the Volya party, “self -help” and “strong Ukraine” pass one candidate in Rada.

The turnout of voters as of 20:00 was 52.8 percent. On May 25, 60 percent of the list of voters took part in the presidential election.

In the 15 districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions and 12 districts of Crimea and Sevastopol, no elections were held. The struggle went for 420 seats in parliament of 450. Rain was elected by a mixed system: half of the places were distributed according to party lists with a five percent passing barrier, the rest of the places in single -mandate districts.

Lists in the elections registered 29 parties and political blocs.

The headquarters of Poroshenko have already stated that the president will try to form the widest coalition in the Rada.