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JAHRESRUECKBLICK 2006 - AUSLAND - UKRAINE WAHLEN JUSCHTSCHENKO TIMOSCHENKO: Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko (L) meets with leader of the opposition block Yulia Timoshenko in Kiev, Tuesday, March 28, 2006. Yushchenko and Timoshenko discussed forming a parliamentary coalition. Ukraine's main pro-Russian opposition party led ballot tallies March 28, 2006 after a weekend parliamentary election, grabbing 29.64 percent of the vote with 63 percent of polling stations reporting, election officials said. In second place after the Regions Party, headed by Russia-friendly former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, was the bloc of 'orange revolution' heroine Yulia Tymoshenko with 22.46 percent. Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc came in third place with 15.56 percent, the results showed. (KEYSTONE/EPA/Mykola Lazarenko)