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Olena Makarenko is a journalist at Euromaidan Press. In 2014, Olena started working as a volunteer on public initiatives focusing on building civil society and promoting dialogue between people from different regions of Ukraine.
Would becoming president and getting а majority in the Parliament be enough for Volodymyr Zelenskyy this year or would he try to get even more power? This is one of the top-questions on Ukraine’s agenda, as Zelenskyy’s team...
The famous boxer came to power in Kyiv in 2014 and was reelected in the 2015 local elections. Also in 2014, then-president Petro Poroshenko appointed Klitschko as head of the Kyiv City State Administration, the state body of executive...
Justifying the corrupt actions of the Odesa mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov, allowing the runaway MP Renat Kuzmin to run for parliamentary elections, revoking the decommunization renaming of two major Kyiv avenues, and opening a case against an...
The result again explains why comic-turned-president Zelenskyy, who earlier won the presidential race by a landslide, needed the early parliamentary elections, which he announced in his inauguration speech on 20 May. The wave of his...
On 11 July 2019, the Ukrainian Parliament voted in favor of the Election Code. The main long-awaited change was eliminating corruption involved in the first-past-the-post system and moving totally to a proportional system with open lists....
The closer the Ukrainian July parliamentary snap elections are, the more national media start playing brinkmanship. The penetration of Russian influence can be called a trend of the electoral campaign. In particular, it comes through the...
The Opposition Platform – For Life (Za Zhyttia) and the Opposition Bloc have the same roots. They are the legacy of the regime of runaway president Viktor Yanukovych. For the July 2019 parliamentary elections, however, they have run...
SkyUp is a small private Ukrainian low-cost airline. Its first flights took off in 2018, the year after the EU visa-free regime with Ukraine was introduced. While it seemed that conditions were favorable for low-cost airlines, their route...
The current furore concerns the national TV channel ZIK, which used to belong to the wife and two daughters of Petro Dymynsky, football functionary and businessman. On June 14 Taras Kosak, an MP from the Opposition Bloc (the successor to...
Will Ukraine have snap 2019 parliamentary elections that will take place on 21 July? This question was in the air since 20 May when newly-elected president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the dissolution of the current parliament during his...
A report on how Russia pursues hybrid war to destabilize Ukraine has been published on 16 July 2019 at the UK-based Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest independent defense and security think tank. It is the first major...
