Representatives of the opposition Batkivschyna and Svoboda parties have won the parliamentary elections in 11 out of 12 single-seat constituencies in Lviv region, according to the figures of the Central Election Commission, with all votes counted in these constituencies.

These are the official preliminary results as of 6 p.m., Nov. 2, according to the Central Election Commission.

Ukrainian opposition parties accused President Viktor Yanukovich's Party of the Regions of "stealing" several parliamentary seats as the vote count from Sunday's election neared completion on Friday

While Ukraine holds the OSCE chairmanship in 2013, it will insist on applying unified election observation standards on all of its territory, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.

Nearly a week after Ukraine's parliamentary election, officials are still scrambling to tally votes in a key Kyiv district, in what the opposition says is a clear example of widespread vote rigging by the ruling party.

The police have opened a criminal case on the obstruction of the work of Deputy Head of Kyiv-based District Election Commission No. 223 Anastasia Prymak and the use of violence against her.

Political parties and candidates in majority constituencies spent a total of $2.5 billion on political advertising and agitation during the recent parliamentary elections in Ukraine, political scientist and President of the SA Political Communications Group Artem Bidenko has said.

MOSCOW - Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev spoke positively of Ukraine's recent parliamentary election and rejected media accusations of funding local parties in a letter to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Ukrainian lawmaker Ksenia Liapina, who won the parliamentary elections in Kyiv's single-seat constituency No. 216 as a representative of the united opposition, has submitted a statement to the prosecutor general about the falsification of a vote count protocol at precinct election commission No. 400180, reads a statement posted on the official Web site of the For Ukraine! Party.

Member of the Austrian parliament Gerhard Huber has stated that he did not notice any violations while observing the parliamentary elections in Ukraine.

National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom has selected Kyiv-based public joint-stock company Alfa-Bank to attract a Hr 300 million renewable credit line and Amsterdam Trade Bank N.V. (the Netherlands) to raise $35 million, reads a company report in the Visnyk Derzhavnykh Zakupivel bulletin.

Ukrainian businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky owns 28.4% of shares of PJSC Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk oil refinery) in Poltava region, he said in an interview to Forbes Ukraine.

An article by Forbes Ukraine posted online on Oct. 23 reports that companies with close ties to President Viktor Yanukovych’s son, Oleksandr, this year at no cost took over majority stakes worth an estimated $10 million in five coal enrichment plants from the state.

Ukraine’s information technology industry is coming back to pre-crisis levels, with double-digit growth expected in coming years.

The release of Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest operating system, has been hailed by some as a breakthrough in computer use.

Helping young information technology companies get from the “eureka” moment on stumbling across a good idea to actually making money off it, startup accelerators like Eastlabs provide office space, mentoring and business training in exchange for a share in future revenues.

Ukraine has shown itself to be an attractive location for outsourced information technology services. 

Ivan Trofimenko joined AstapovLawyers as Head of Real Estate Department, which will advise on a full range of land, property and construction related issues.

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Yevhenia Chemerys has been appointed board chairman at Credit Agricole Bank (Kyiv) from November 19 in place of Philippe Guidez.

The chances of Ukraine signing an association agreement with the European Union are not as close as Ukrainian authorities are saying.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said that the criticism by the head of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly delegation Walburga Habsburg Douglas and head of the OSCE long-term observer mission Audrey Glover of the parliamentary elections in Ukraine is their personal opinion and not the conclusion of all the members of the delegation.

The Central Election Commission hopes to receive vote count protocols from all district election commissions by the end of Saturday, November 3.

As a result of a scuffle at district election constituency No. 211 during the recount of ballots in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, MP Serhiy Teriokhin of the BYT-Batkivschyna faction had a rib and a finger broken, the Web site of the Batkivschyna United Opposition reported.

MYKOLAIV - The leader of the Batkivschyna United Opposition in Mykolaiv region, Vadym Merikov, and MP Hennadiy Moskal have returned vote count protocols to constituency No. 132 (Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv region), which were earlier removed by Berkut riot police officers.

 The opposition has submitted to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, a draft instruction on an investigation into the falsification of the 2012 parliamentary elections, Head of the Batkivschyna United Opposition Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.

 Leader of the UDAR Party Vitali Klitschko has stated that his political force has started discussing with other opposition parties their action plan in a new parliament.

 Conflicts between participants of the election process caused delays in the work of 11 district election commissions, the Public Liaisons Department of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine has said.

The election vote count led to bloodshed in Mykolayiv Oblast’s Pervomaisk, where pro-government and opposition candidates are both claiming victory in district 132. 

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine (CEC) should declare invalid election results in a number of constituencies and call a repeated polling, CEC Deputy Head Zhanna Usenko-Chorna has said.