An advertisement for the Zelenskyi campaign. It is written in Ukrainian “Ze president, servant of the people”. The first letters “Ze” (Зе) are a play of words on the English article “the,” i.e. THE only president; and also...
When on 3 April, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of Russia’s third-largest party LDPR, declared that he will recognize Ukrainian elections only if the winner is comic-turned-candidate Volodymyr Zelenskyi, it came as no surprise....
Here is my subjective opinion on four key points the first round showed: 1. TV promotion works Volodymyr Zelenskyi is a TV celebrity who has been promoted for years by the second most popular Ukrainian channel “1+1” owned by...
No one should have been surprised that Volodymyr Zelenskyi ran far ahead of all other candidates in the first round of the Ukrainian presidential election, Vitaly Portnikov says. His victory shows that Ukrainians continue to vote their...
Read the follow-up article: Comedian to face incumbent President in run-off and other takeaways of Ukrainian elections 23:51 The voting process has been completed without systematic violations, says Head of CEC Tetiana Slipachuk. 23:22...
Since the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) was formed and granted autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople last year, both it and the Moscow Patriarchate’s exarchate in Ukraine agree that a number of churches have...
Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019 will take place in the context of conventional and hybrid aggression from the Russian side. Thus, the ongoing disinformation campaign ahead of the Ukrainian vote is both an attempt...
Russian narratives against Poroshenko and a strong desire to delegitimize elections It’s clear that Russia cares about Ukrainian elections and favors certain candidates. That Putin doesn’t sit well with Poroshenko and his pro-Ukrainian...
For the 2019 presidential elections, the Central Election Commission registered 139 Ukrainian NGOs monitoring the election process, a record. Among them is the Natsionalni Druzhyny (“National Militia”), a far-right...
A record amount of over 2.3 bn UAH ($85 mn) has been allocated from the state budget for financing the 2019 election of the President of Ukraine. This is 20% more than in 2014, the presidential election which took place immediately after...
Does the Hybrid War actually work? In the aftermath of the first round of the presidential election in Ukraine, that question has become more relevant than ever. Additionally, it triggers the need for new predictions for 2019 and beyond....
