Experts suppose the attempts to disrupt the second round of the presidential election by observers.
They said this addressing the round-table meeting "Techniques for involving foreign observers and reporters to ensure victory in the second round of presidential election" held in the Ukrainian News press-center.
"What strategies are used to keep power? There are some of them. First, to disrupt the runoff," Andrii Yermolayev, political scientist, said.
We are witnessing certain techniques being employed to this effect, he added.
These are, in particular, to bring discredit on the voting process including ballot printing procedure, involve suspicious observers and internationalization of election rows.
"We had a unique situation in the 2010 election when the country with less resources and potential… got a principal opportunity to influence the results of voting in the larger European state," Yurii Havrylchenko, expert for the Public Safety Foundation, said.
Observers at the election, in particular, Georgians, may be used to carry out unlawful propaganda, exert pressure on election commission members or spark an information boom, he noted.
The first round of the presidential election was the so-called preparatory stage for observers from Georgia, he noted.
According to Dmytro Vydrin, deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, the second round will not be disrupted by observers because of the event got broad publicity.
"All dark, black or grey technologies are working until public discussions, especially, public rows, emerge," Vydrin said.
He was puzzled over the sources financing the stay of Georgian observers in Ukraine.
As reported, the Prosecutor-General’s Office (PGO) is investigating the authenticity of the reports that attempts were made to disrupt the Ukrainian presidential elections with the help of election observers from Georgia.
The Georgian Embassy in Ukraine requested on January 6 and 8 that the Central Electoral Commission register 1,055 Georgian citizens as official observers of the January 17 Ukrainian presidential election.
However, the Central Electoral Commission refused to register the Georgian citizens, saying that Georgia submitted the relevant registration documents too late and that it did not have sufficient time to check the documents properly before the end of the deadline for registering foreign election observers.
