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Followed by the eloquent slogan: “A story of the next president,” the TV series represents a typical satirical plot: a protagonist, Vasyl Holoborodko (Volodymyr Zelenskyy) who is an ordinary school teacher, unexpectedly wins the...
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...
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Not only the five parties that passed the 5% threshold will get annual funding from the state budget in the upcoming five years under the Ukrainian law “On political parties” with anti-corruption amendments. Six more parties which...
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...
But, there is one big difference. In 2010, Viktor Yanukovych usurped the powers of the government. In 2019, the will of the people prevailed, and there was no flagrant usurpation of authority or outright change in the Constitution. In an...
Vitaliy Portnikov: Before the elections, experts were talking about a possible coalition between the Servant of the People and Voice, as they are both new political forces. But now, it looks as if Servant of the People will not need to...
Lowest turnout in historyy The 2019 snap parliamentary elections gathered the lowes turnout in Ukrainian history – only 49.8%. The timing of the elections during vacation time may be one explanation for this. The 2019 presidential...
But, did you know that for the first and last time, Ukraine celebrated Independence Day on July 16, 1991? The chosen date was based on the first anniversary of the 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, which enshrined political...
