Praise for Ukraine’s democracy after first round of elections
On March 31 Ukraine delivered what democracies dream of, a hotly contested but free and fair presidential election.…
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Comedian to face incumbent President in run-off and other takeaways of Ukrainian elections
Here is my subjective opinion on four key points the first round showed: 1. TV promotion works Volodymyr…
Analysis: Among presidential candidates Poroshenko is the key target of hate speech on “Russian Facebook” VK
Interestingly, the study by Internews Ukraine reveals that pro-Kremlin candidates were also subjected to mostly negative coverage, while Ukraine and…
Ukrainians once again are voting for someone they hope has a magic wand, Portnikov says
No one should have been surprised that Volodymyr Zelenskyy ran far ahead of all other candidates in the…
Ukrainian 2019 presidential elections: Live updates
Read the follow-up article: Comedian to face incumbent President in run-off and other takeaways of Ukrainian elections 23:51 The…
The ultimate guide to how Ukrainian elections could be falsified
The fact that the objective of Russian propaganda is to delegitimize the Ukrainian presidential elections was already evident…
“Ukraine will turn into a banana republic”: Ukrainian elections on Russian TV
Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019 will take place in the context of conventional and hybrid aggression…
Russian interference in Ukrainian elections: separating the wheat from the chaff
Russian narratives against Poroshenko and a strong desire to delegitimize elections It’s clear that Russia cares about Ukrainian…
Do Ukraine’s right-wing extremist groups have a chance of derailing presidential elections?
For the 2019 presidential elections, the Central Election Commission registered 139 Ukrainian NGOs monitoring the election process, a…
Ukraine’s heated presidential campaign most expensive ever
A record amount of over 2.3 bn UAH ($85 mn) has been allocated from the state budget for…
Two Ukrainian TV channels push Russian propaganda amid presidential election: report
StopFake's newest research analyzes the content of talk shows on two Ukrainian opposition TV channels, NewsOne and 112.…
Three reasons why a comedian should not be president of Ukraine
I am heartened and saddened by Ukrainian opinion polls. Saddened because Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in first place and…
Pollsters say Zelenskyi leads in Ukraine’s presidential race. Bookies lean towards Poroshenko
The Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine registered 44 presidential candidates for the election, a record number in Ukrainian…
Oligarchic shadow of Ukraine’s 2019 elections
This article was first published at ukraineverstehen.de “Oligarchic rule” is the phrase which people often use to describe Ukraine.…
Russia’s in the midst of an election campaign – it just happens to be in Ukraine, Kirillova says
Anyone who watches Moscow television would assume the country was in the midst of an election campaign –…
Three weeks before Ukrainian elections: Zelenskyi leads polls while Tymoshenko and Poroshenko fight each other
Zelenskyy goes up, Tymoshenko takes a dive For the first time in Ukrainian elections, a “poll of polls”…
In Ukraine, oligarchs set the election agenda using their TV
Largely, the reason for this is that the largest Ukrainian media outlets are owned, and thus controlled, privately.…
Union of democratic candidates may change balance of forces during Ukraine’s presidential election
On March 1, Andriy Sadovyi, mayor of Lviv and leader of the Samopomich party, withdrew his candidacy for…
Poroshenko’s man in defense industry accused of graft & smuggling: truth or pre-election manipulation?
This is not the first journalistic investigation about corruption in the Ukrainian defense industry, as well as not…
Ukrainian prankers organize rent-a-mob rally in support of serial killer “presidential candidate”
Low-scale political corruption in Ukraine: rent-a-mobs and votes for sale Rent-a-mob rallies Not every rally in Ukraine is…