“Dissolve them all to hell! It’s deceit!” shouted Andriy Bohdan, head of the Presidential Office, at Dmytro Razumkov, chairperson of the Rada. His outburst came when the presidential bill was rejected after the second, final...
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When Vladimir Putin became the new president of Russia in 2000, he was opposed by a strong institutional opposition in the newly elected State Duma, which included old Soviet nomenklatura officials from the Fatherland-All Russia party, the...
The new just-appointed Cabinet of Ministers received moderately positive evaluations even from ex-President Poroshenko’s European Solidarity party that is now in opposition. Most of the new ministers have good chances to continue...
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 result again explains why comic-turned-president Zelenskyy, who earlier won the presidential race by a landslide, needed the early parliamentary elections, which he announced in his inauguration speech on 20 May. The wave of his...
Lowest turnout in historyy The 2019 snap parliamentary elections gathered the lowes turnout in Ukrainian history – only 49.8%. The timing of the elections during vacation time may be one explanation for this. The 2019 presidential...
On 11 July 2019, the Ukrainian Parliament voted in favor of the Election Code. The main long-awaited change was eliminating corruption involved in the first-past-the-post system and moving totally to a proportional system with open lists....
“We still do not know what they did to the Jews. Terrifying rumors are heard from the Lukianivske cemetery. But they still cannot be trusted. They say that the Jews are being shot. Those escorting them to the point where they were...
