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...
International polling, such as Pew’s 2018 research, has been proving the failure of Russian “soft power” since Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. According to Pew, just 34% and 26% of the global public (covering 25 countries) expressed a...
I am heartened and saddened by Ukrainian opinion polls. Saddened because Volodymyr Zelenskyy 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...
Zelenskyy 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...
How does one end a war? Any war ends when one side defeats another and the winner achieves some or all of his goals such as “the desired territorial, economic, military or other benefits expected following the successful conclusion...
