Regions. Nevertheless, UDAR did well because it is new. The 10.4% and 37 seats won by the Freedom party were the biggest surprise, however. The party likes to depict itself as a Le Pen-ist new 'moderate' new right party, but its ugly face is barely hidden. The party objected to the Gaitana, Ukraine's 2012 singer for Eurovision this year, because she was black. Its slogan of 'Ukraine for the Ukrainians' isn't really about immigration -- Ukraine doesn't have many immigrants. Rather it is code for the traditional cultural contest with Russia and the Russian language. This interesting study claims Ukraine has the highest number of 'attitude radicals' in Europe. But there were several contingent factors in the Freedom party's success. One was differential turnout, which was 58% nationally, but higher in the west (67% in Lviv, 49% in Crimea), boosting support for the opposition. The last parliamentary election was in 2007 -- before the global economic crisis that has boosted support for many similar populist far right parties elsewhere in Europe. The Freedom party harvested a classic protest vote, boosted by the withdrawal of the traditional 'against all' option from the ballot paper. It also benefited from the backlash against the Languages Law passed in July to raise the status of Russian, which has prompted big protests in western and central Ukraine - whether this was cynically intended by the authorities or not. So this being Ukraine, conspiracy theories also abound. The rise of the Freedom party divides and potentially