Followed by the eloquent slogan: “A story of the next president,” the TV series represents a typical satirical plot: a protagonist, Vasyl Holoborodko (Volodymyr Zelenskyy) who is an ordinary school teacher, unexpectedly wins the...
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...
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...
What do we really want? Against a backdrop of daily stupidity perpetrated by our “criminal government” and the undisguised sneaky backstabbing committed by former government members, who now comfortably oppose everybody and everything,...
When the fight against corruption is accompanied by systematic discrediting of state institutions, this can only lead to the degradation of political culture and the collapse of authority. Observers view the results of the Italian...
Vladimir Putin’s regime is “ideologically close” to the right-wing populism now sweeping the West in its “xenophobia, isolationism and hurrah-patriotism” and with its “cult of a strong national leader” who alone can take on...
On New Year’s eve, the host of the Paths to Freedom show on Radio Svoboda Vitaliy Portnikov spoke with political experts Taras Berezovets and Pavel Kazarin to analyze the events in Ukraine of the past year and share their forecasts for...
But, did you know that for the first and last time, Ukraine celebrated Independence Day on July 16, 1991? The chosen date was based on the first anniversary of the 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, which enshrined political...
