Kyiv in Colors 4
A Trip to Kyiv City Elections 2008

Here's another shipment.

Part II
May 17

The Omelchenko Bloc experiments with The Motherland Calls! WW II poster
More hot air from HAK at the background



Based on my balcony polls, Obolon will break for BYuT.




Election Village at Heroyiv Dnipra Station



Never too far?




The quest for the lesser evil can quite a headache.
I'm sure Hryhoriy Skovoroda, cast in stone, would agree.


The little-known Agrarian Party camps outside the Podil branch of the National Bank



Take it like a man!


What a thought-provoking placement!


That scene makes for a high-credibility ad!

See those handouts?


Kyrpa's Bridge



Isn't she lovely?


The Unification Ark built in honor of the Pereyaslav Treaty


Hug Horbal and Co


Some sports event was held at Maidan


Kick Kosmos



I didn't put him there.


The Lytvyn Bloc: Kids First!





HAK putting a show, slaying dragons and delivering damsels in distress




People just love HAK




Checking Chernoco


Taras Shevchenko Monument


Taras Shevchenko National University, a hangout for Kuchma courtesy of Yushchenko




Make no mistake, I won't keep mum, I won't let them steal!
Kyiv will win if Brodsky makes it to the City Council
[Take a hike!]










Who did this to "poor" Pylypyshyn?

May 18



Wanna be where the voters are? Try beating BYuT!






A Lutsenko rally announcement


Yevhen Nishchuk
This guy ran the stage at Maidan


Maria Burmaka "Chroni chereshni" ("Sweet Black Cherries")


Maria Burmaka "Ne Biysya" ("Don't Fear"), an Orange Revolution song




Lutsenko grabs the mike, blasts Chernovetsy, land grabs, immunity from prosecution.
Note how NUNS has replaced its 2007 campaign slogan "one law for all" with "law and justice."

Kyiv in Colors 4
A Trip to Kyiv City Elections 2008

Enjoy this longitudinal report!

Part I
May 4-May 7


HAK
There's garbage on the streets because there's garbage in politics
[I can't help but agree with this self-evaluation.]


The prices are growing, the anger is rising!
Incompetent politicians, resign!
[Amen to that!]



















The Kyiv municipal administration guarantees: two modern stadiums in Obolon. Already in 2008!


Some dark horse from the Agrarian Party








Balcony advertising








Election Village on Obolon's main square



Skhid i zakhid razom!





Kyiv needs an honest mayor!









Election Village, again










Kontraktova Ploshcha [Square]
Pretty close, aren't they?


Hetman Sahaidachny Monument





Maidan
















City Hall: Will they make it?


Central Department Store: Will the cross-bundling work?


Besarabsky Market



Vasyl Horbal, the New Mayor




War and peace: Leo Tolstoy Station





Nice rope, isn't it?





Love that perspective! If BYuT breaks Ukraine's heart, there will be enough room in that cage for both of them.



Katerynchuk activists using a strange-looking J-shaped flag
Didn't they use such devices for air conditioning in ancient Egypt?



Lutsenko: For a Corruption-Free Kyiv!


From Kyiv With Love



More balcony BYuT

May 9 (Victory Day)










Party of Regions: Kyivites' prosperty without scandals and scuffles

May 11 (Europe Day)


Obolon's Election Village, again


Laskovy Mai "Beliye rozy," a major local hit of the late 80s-early 90s





Party of Regions: Vote for your own kind!








Perhaps you've already seen these.
As I said, too much paper. And too much stabilnist talk.

May 12

Vasyl Horbal, Party of Regions


Lutsenko, BYuT, HAK


I'm voting for the Leonid Chernovetsky Bloc!








Riverfront Obolon
Politics in every nook and cranny


BYuT beats Chernoco 3-2

May 14



Vasyl Horabal, the new mayor
Archbishop Pavlo of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (Moscow Patriarchate) doesn't shun politics. Initially, he intended to run with the Communist Party. He then converted to the Party of Religions...uh...Regions.
Why not? After all, it's people like Pavlo who make religion the opium of the people.



The score still holds!

May 15


The team that will change Kyiv for the better!



Viktor Pylypyshyn of the Lytvyn Bloc: Kids First!



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Downtrodden and battle-scarred



Chernovetsky Bloc: New metro lines for Teremky and Troyeshchna!
[How about a one-way ticket to Mars?]


Not all people know how to fix them





BYuT beats Chernoco 3-1


Anybody home upstairs?




Round draw


Kyiv needs Mayor Klychko!




Election Village












The rap song is hilarious, and so is the exhibit!





The only Commie balcony I've seen




Enough!
[no more Martian law!]