So the first verdict is out -
Chernovetski - the incumbent mayor of Kiev gets to stay mayor with an initial 32% share of the vote (counting is still going on)
-The other main candidates each had about 20% of the vote and the remaining 10% of the vote was basically split between 3 other candidates (though I heard rumoured that all in all - 72 people were on the ballot) If those other 69 candidates hadn't existed - it is possible (at least more so than this current race) that Chernovetski would have been ousted.
BUT - the drama isn't over yet. Sure the tents, the flat screen tvs, even the flags and pamphlets have been tidied up and put away - BUT is the election really over? Due to the most recent tiff between Yulia and Yushenko - Yushenko declared that despite the 70 odd candidates - there would be no second round of elections - But the question is now, will Yulia, now that her chosen mayor failed to win the vote - will she let the mayor issue die or will she push and get another election.
I hope she lets it die - even a corrupt mayor has got to be better than the millions spent on the election campaign. It truly makes me feel ill to think of it - There are so many things that the money could be used for!!
My Russian teacher says - that granted Chernovetsky is crooked - at least he has been in office for awhile and has maybe made enough money for himself and his friends - now he can start spending the money on the city. In fact, his entire campaign (which monopolized the televisions
on the metro and has led to a lawsuit over the misuse of public funds) Was explicitly based on the principle that he is doing things (23 kindergartens opened, remodeling 43 schools, 17 hospitals, 3 bridges, new metros my 2010 - Actually a new metro near us open a full half year ahead of schedule - it doesn't go anywhere yet - you come out in a not long abandoned construction site (in a freshly paved buss turn about with roads that no one knows where they lead too ---next time we go Alister and I are taing out compass--but the important thing is you can take the metro to somewhere).
on the metro and has led to a lawsuit over the misuse of public funds) Was explicitly based on the principle that he is doing things (23 kindergartens opened, remodeling 43 schools, 17 hospitals, 3 bridges, new metros my 2010 - Actually a new metro near us open a full half year ahead of schedule - it doesn't go anywhere yet - you come out in a not long abandoned construction site (in a freshly paved buss turn about with roads that no one knows where they lead too ---next time we go Alister and I are taing out compass--but the important thing is you can take the metro to somewhere). 
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