“Draw your own candidate” The first striking fact is that, according to Iryna Bekeshkina, director of the Fund “Democratic Initiatives,” 37% of Zelenskyi’s electorate support Ukraine’s membership in NATO while another 37%...
Just as British voters rejected Winston Churchill after he had led the country to victory in World War II because they wanted a new leadership for peacetime, so too Ukrainian voters have rejected Petro Poroshenko after he led his country...
The language of hatred that has infected both sides in the just-completed presidential race in Ukraine, just like it did in Britain over Brexit and in the US election of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton has far more serious consequences...
Army capable of fighting, well-equipped, skilled, and experienced The corruption in the state defense industry scandalously exposed by the Bihus.info journalist investigation served a devastating blow to all the anti-corruption and...
By today, there is little doubt that Volodymyr Zelenskyi will win the second round of Ukraine’s presidential election on 21 April. The comic-turned-presidential candidate earned a little over 30% of votes in the first round on 31...
Professionalism The pre-recorded interview of Zelenskyi with journalists of the ICTV channel started with the question “You are in politics already for three months. What are your impressions?” Zelenskyi’s opponents point to the...
Maybe we need to be more honest about these election results? Do Lviv residents really support corruption, general impoverishment, or populism? Do they want a man with an iron fist? Don’t they know how to organize their daily life? Do...
Here is my subjective opinion on four key points the first round showed: 1. TV promotion works Volodymyr Zelenskyi is a TV celebrity who has been promoted for years by the second most popular Ukrainian channel “1+1” owned by...
Interestingly, the study by Internews Ukraine reveals that pro-Kremlin candidates were also subjected to mostly negative coverage, while Ukraine and Ukrainians, in general, general were described in highly pejorative terms such as...
No one should have been surprised that Volodymyr Zelenskyi ran far ahead of all other candidates in the first round of the Ukrainian presidential election, Vitaly Portnikov says. His victory shows that Ukrainians continue to vote their...
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...
