Surprise in Transnistria

[minionofmidas]

So the elections in Russia happened between rounds 1 and 2? What was turnout like in the two rounds?

[minionofmidas]

Why are you collating the Ukrainian portion of Bukovina (itself an artificial country created by the Austrians from a thinly settled portion of then-Turkish dominated, Romanian-inhabited Moldova that they annexed in the 18th century, and then peopled with Ukrainians, Jews and a few Germans; the Germans and most of the Jews now having disappeared of course) with Transcarpathia (which was a part of Hungary since its boundaries were first fixed until 1918, then of Czechoslovakia until 1945, but whose population is highly mixed but majority Ruthenian) - just because they are both outside core Ukraine but on the west side? They don't even border on each other!

[minionofmidas]

Czernivtsy elected a Zionist to the pre-1918 Austrian parliament in the only free elections (1907 and 1911) that ever knew. That is, for one of the city's two single-member fptp constituencies.

[minionofmidas]

While "Zionist" was the party designation, this may very well have been a purely communal Jewish vs Ukrainian two man race, of course.