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On 2nd October two grenades were thrown at Progressive Socialist Party leader Nataliya Vitrenko as she was leaving an election meeting in Kryvyy Rih.
BBC: Violence, mud-slinging mar Ukraine election campaign
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More disappointment followed at March's World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, where she again was pipped to gold, this time in the pentathlon, by Ukrainian Nataliya Dobrynska.
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Geir Moulson in Berlin and Nataliya Vasiliyeva in Moscow contributed.
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Nataliya Vasilyeva contributed to this report from Moscow.
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Ennis's main competition at the Gotzis multi-events meeting, which is part of the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge, is likely to come from the Ukraine's reigning Olympic champion Nataliya Dobrynska and World Indoor pentathlon champion Tatyana Chernova of Russia.
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According to a recent opinion poll, the 31st October vote is likely to go to a second round, with incumbent President Leonid Kuchma in a runoff against one of three leftist candidates - Nataliya Vitrenko, Oleksandr Moroz or Petro Symonenko.
BBC: Violence, mud-slinging mar Ukraine election campaign