On 2nd October two grenades were thrown at Progressive Socialist Party leader Nataliya Vitrenko as she was leaving an election meeting in Kryvyy Rih.
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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.