I am heartened and saddened by Ukrainian opinion polls. Saddened because Volodymyr Zelenskyi is in first place and according to these polls he could win in round 2. Heartened because in other opinion polls when Ukrainians are asked who...
This article was first published at ukraineverstehen.de “Oligarchic rule” is the phrase which people often use to describe Ukraine. At each election, politicians make lofty promises to end it. However, so far these were only words...
Zelenskyi goes up, Tymoshenko takes a dive For the first time in Ukrainian elections, a “poll of polls” model was made. Constructed by texty.org, it combines different polls into a single image. The authors stress that their results...
Largely, the reason for this is that the largest Ukrainian media outlets are owned, and thus controlled, privately. In 2015, Ukraine passed legislation on mandatory transparency of media ownership. It obliged media to identify their...
On March 1, Andriy Sadovyi, mayor of Lviv and leader of the Samopomich party, withdrew his candidacy for president in favor of Anatoliy Hrytsenko, the leader of the Hromadianska Pozitsiya party. “Right now, we have a chance to choose...
Low-scale political corruption in Ukraine: rent-a-mobs and votes for sale Rent-a-mob rallies Not every rally in Ukraine is held by genuine supporters of a certain policy or decision. Demonstrations where participants were paid money to...
Euromaidan Press talked to Odesa activist Vitaliy Ustymenko to ascertain how the situation in the city currently looks. Ustymenko, head of Odesa Automaidan, an organization born during the Euromaidan Revolution which after it focused on...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
A strange conversation occurred on one of the streets of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in late November 2004. It was a windy sunny day. The last leaves, along with the first timid snowflakes, were falling down, covering the cold ground. It...
The presidential and parliamentarian elections are coming up. Considering this, Ukraine should be prepared for Russian meddling, stresses Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze....
When Ukrainian prosecutors released audio intercepts that appeared to show the direct involvement of Kremlin top advisor Sergey Glazyev in Russia’s takeover of Crimea and pro-separatist rallies in eastern Ukraine in August 2016, they...
