Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov was forced to resign following a week of protests against the rigged parliamentary elections. Thousands of rallies and protests continue in Belarus. Students, activists and thousands of ordinary...
Oligarchs re-entrenching themselves back into politics In his opening remarks, Jonathan Katz, a Senior Fellow and Director of Democracy Initiatives at the German Marshall Fund, said that “this is obviously a high-stakes election for...
25 October 2020 is the day when local elections will take place across Ukraine. Citizens will choose the heads of villages, towns, and cities, as well as the heads of the corresponding councils. For the first time, the elections will take...
Texty.org.ua conventionally divided all the parties that participated in the parliamentary elections from 2006 throughout 2019 into three types: national democratic parties (typical examples: Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine, Poroshenko Bloc);...
On 9 August, in what is called an election in Belarus, incumbent President Alyaksandr Lukashenka officially came out victorious. According to a preliminary tally by the Central Election commission, he won 80.08% of the votes while his...
Today is the day of the presidential election in my native Belarus. It is the sixth election in Belarusian history. Only the 1994 election was deemed free and fair, and votes in 2001, 2006, 2010, and 2015 were marred by electoral fraud and...
In July 2016, legislation on prevention and countering political corruption was amended in a way that foresaw providing state financing for statutory party activity and expenditure on pre-election campaigns. The changes came into force at...
Ukraine’s parliament voted in favor of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s decision to dismiss all the Central Election Commission (CEC) squad. The president accused the CEC members of bias and violating procedures during the last...
After 17 unsuccessful attempts, on 11 July the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine finally passed a new Election Code. It significantly changes the current election system. The document comes into force on 1 December 2023, meaning that both the snap...
The last six months in Ukraine have generated a level of optimism not seen since the 2014 Maidan revolution. The country is about to enter a parliamentary election with a new President who is a fresh face in Ukrainian politics yet has been...
On 23 June 1978, a Soviet police officer came to the house of a Crimean Tatar Musa Mamut to escort him to a meeting with a prosecutor. Mamut was legally not allowed to live in Crimea, due to his nationality. In fact, he had just returned...
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