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Opposition Bloc

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  2019/07/09 - 22:43 • Politics

  Opposition Platform & Bloc: Ukraine’s pro-Russian political forces and their chances

  The Opposition Platform – For Life (Za Zhyttia) and the Opposition Bloc have the same roots. They are the legacy of the regime of runaway president Viktor Yanukovych. For the July 2019 parliamentary elections, however, they have run...

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  2018/07/08 - 11:57 • International, Ukraine

  The old/new “Red Director”: the who, when & how of Yuriy Boiko’s...

  A month later, the EU and the USA imposed sanctions on Yanukovych and his clan. The list was drawn up directly in Ukraine by acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky, and, surprisingly, there were a number of important names missing:...

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  2016/03/05 - 19:34 • International, More, Politics

  The mayoral election in Kryvyi Rih puts the system in agony

  The Ukrainian oligarchic system is facing a threat The Ukrainian oligarchic system is facing a threat. It comes not from the policy of de-oligarchisation announced long time ago by President Petro Poroshenko, but from the ordinary people...

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  2015/11/19 - 15:02 • International

  The “Mykolayiv miracle”: IT director defeats oligarch-supported opponent in local elections

  It’s celebration time in the election team of Oleksandr Senkevych, the mayor of Mykolayiv, a regional center in South Ukraine. The self-made 33-y.o. director of a Ukrainian-American company beat a member of the old pro-Yanukovych...

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