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Manipulations during Ukrainian Local Elections 2010

Discover manipulations during the 2010 Ukrainian local elections with illegal agitation tactics, covering the Sumy region. Uncover the tactics used in 'clubs of electors' and the involvement of administrative resources in political campaigning. Explore a money-making scheme tied to recruiting election campaigners.

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Manipulations during Ukrainian Local Elections 2010

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  1. Manipulations during Ukrainian Local Elections 2010 The scheme for the whole region Svidomo Bureau of Investigative Journalism Panorama newspaper, Sumy Contacts: Yevhen Polozhii (Panorama) +38-050-327-4258 Yehor Soboliev (Svidomo) +38-050-351-8141 Oksana Brovko (Svidomo) +38-067-617-7742

  2. Illegal agitation.“Clubs of electors” • In August 2010, first ‘electors’ clubs’ began operating in Sumy • During these ‘club’ gatherings, speakers were telling people about achievements of the new government and urged them to vote for the ruling party’s candidates at the upcoming local council and mayor elections • Before the 2nd of October, when the Party of Regions could legally start the official electoral campaign, hundreds of ‘club’ gatherings like these took place throughout the Sumy Oblast

  3. Illegal agitationClubs of electors • Video: the chief ideologist of an ‘electors’ club’ introduces a candidate for the Mayor of Sumy from the Party of Regions. It happened five weeks before the official start of the electoral campaign under Ukrainian law http://rutube.ru/tracks/3569868.html?v=d0f121066b5b642963a074846fcb48a8 • Law: Article 36. Forms and methods of electoral campaigning Citizens of Ukraine, political parties, and other associations of citizens… have right, starting from the day of candidates’ registration by respective election committees, to freely and comprehensively discuss their election programs and political, business, and personal qualities, and campaign for or against this or that candidate completely unobstructed.

  4. Illegal agitation“Clubs of electors” • The ‘electors’ clubs’ have covered the whole region. Here’s the list of this week’s events in Sumy

  5. Illegal agitation“Clubs of electors”

  6. Illegal agitation“Clubs of electors”. Administrative resource • Campaigners for the Party of Regions at an ‘electors’ club’ gathering: the governor, officials of oblast and raion administrations, heads of hospitals, schools, etc. • Video: speech of the Sumy Oblast Governor Yurii Chmyrhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvThMRTxZNE

  7. Illegal agitation“Clubs of electors”. Administrative source 5 examples of political campaigning by public officials: • Deputy Head of the Sumy Oblast State Administration: Serhii Hrytsai • Konotop Mayor: Ivan Ohrokhin • Head of the Lypovydynskyi Raion State Administration: Mykhailo Zhohlo • Director, Department of Land Resources in the Okhtyrskyi Raion: Yurii Horbushko • Director, Department of Justice of the Lebedynskyi Raion State Administration: Ivan Kovalenko

  8. More than agitation: money-making machine • Every person attending an ‘electors’ club’ gathering have to complete a questionnaire and campaign among his or her friends • If they will also complete a questionnaire and attend the 'club’s' gathering three times, they will be paid money • If they will enroll their friends, they will also receive bonuses

  9. More than agitation: money-making machine Table: a marketing plan of campaigning fees

  10. More than agitation: money-making machine • Audio file: a telephone talk with coach Yulia Antonova concerning fees and bonuses for enrolling more people in an ‘electors’ club’ • http://svidomo.creativebureau.net/defend_article/181

  11. More than agitation: money-making machine • A questionnairewhich must be completed by each campaigner from the‘electors’ club’

  12. The questionnaire

  13. More than agitation: money-making machine • Table: personal page of coach Yulia Antonova, showing the number of people enrolled and bonus sums

  14. More than agitation: money-making machine • Table: personal page of coach Yulia Antonova, showing the number of people enrolled and bonus sums. Our journalists inside the network

  15. More than agitation: money-making machine. Our journalists in the network

  16. More than agitation: money-making machine. Our journalists in the network

  17. More than agitation: money-making machine. Our journalists in the network

  18. More than agitation: money-making machine. Our journalists in the network

  19. More than agitation: money-making machine. Our journalists in the network

  20. More than agitation: money-making machine • Table: a list of bonus payments to campaigners

  21. Purchasing of voices based on Herbalife's technology • At the top of campaigner network sit the ‘stars’ of network marketing • The head of the network: Nikita Gromyko, a Russian national whose family lives in the USA • He made his career at Vision, a company that sells active food supplements and cosmetics • Video: A gratitude from Nikita Gromyko to the governor for using his method http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLy1bpYLsF0

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