MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) — Moscow considers the parliamentary elections in Ukraine as complete and is ready to recognize their results, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.
"It seems that these elections are complete, though not throughout the entire territory of Ukraine. I believe we will recognize these elections because it's important for us that a power in Ukraine has finally appeared that will not occupy itself with fighting one another and putting Ukraine into a tug-of-war between the West and East, but will take on actual problems that are standing before the country," Lavrov said on Life News television.
Early parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on Sunday. According to Ukraine's Central Election Commission, the turnout stood at 52.42 percent.
Currently, with some 55 percent of ballots counted, the People's Front has garnered 21.6 percent of the popular vote, and the country's current president's Petro Poroshenko's Bloc is close behind with 21.45 percent, according to the Central Election Commission. The parties are now considering creating a coalition.
The two leading parties are followed by the Samopomich (Self-Help) party headed by mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovy with 11.2 percent of the votes, the Opposition Bloc with 9.8 percent, Oleh Lyashko's nationalist Radical Party with 7.34 percent, and Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party headed by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko with 5.65 percent.
