Texty.org.ua conventionally divided all the parties that participated in the parliamentary elections from 2006 throughout 2019 into three types: national democratic parties (typical examples: Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine, Poroshenko...
Researchers from the Center for Economic strategy selected eight populist reforms from the programs of presidential candidates. All eight policies that were examined fall under the common framework of socialist or left-wing policies, the...
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 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...
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...
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...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
