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Talks with Trump team may begin in early February, says Ukrainian parliamentary leader

The development comes after President-elect Trump's promise to end the war and announcement to arrange a call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to discuss a potential meeting.

byOrysia Hrudka

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Ukrainian politics

Ukraine’s parliament elects Zelenskyy loyalist as speaker: possible outcomes

Razumkov tried to balance in the parliament On 7 October, Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, voted to dismiss…

byBohdan Ben

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Ukrainian anti-oligarch law inadvertently shines spotlight on Russian-linked members of presidential entourage

On the same day of the attempted assassination, President Zelenskyy delivered a speech to the 76th session of…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Ukrainian politics

Zelenskyy’s party expels whistleblower but the monolith has cracked

The expulsion of Geo Leros An urban art project director and former Zelenskyy advisor, turned-MP, Leros became a…

byBohdan Ben

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Why the influence of Arsen Avakov in Ukraine will grow

ACT II – INSIGHT: RETAINING POWER BY ALL MEANS Avakov as beneficiary of the policy shift? President Zelenskyy’s…

byThink Tank

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Hybrid War

Journalist threatened after uncovering pro-Russian Telegram channels and their influence on president’s party MPs

Texty.org.ua journalist Liubov Velychko found herself under attack after publishing her research revealing pro-Russian messages on Telegram channels…

byOlena Makarenko

Ukrainian presidential office head Andrii Yermak (L) and Russian presidential envoy Dmitry Kozak (R)

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Kyiv finds an alibi to step back from Kozak-Yermak plan on Donbas

The COVID-19 coronavirus emergency gives Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a non-political excuse for stepping back from the plan…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Kozak-Yermak plan on Donbas: The fine print

The meeting of the Minsk-based Contact Group, held by videoconference on March 24–26, had been expected to officially…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

March 10, 2020 meeting of Vladimir Putin with Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch and the head of the pro-Russian party "Oppositional Platform -- For Life" represented in the Ukrainian parliament where he is a deputy and the head of his party's faction. The Kremlin, Moscow. (Source: kremlin.ru)

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Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy turns blind eye to Putin-Medvedchuk scheming

On March 10, in Moscow, Ukraine’s leading Russophile politician Viktor Medvedchuk conferred with Russian President Vladimir Putin and…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Servants of the People or “Little Russian valets”. Zelenskyy party on course for the “Russian world”

But, although President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the question, he did not know the answer. Because his answer to…

byEspreso.TV

Yevhen Shevchenko (L screen), Ukrainian MP from Volodymyr Zelenskyy's party "Servant of the People," and Denis Pushilin (R screen), the collaborationist head of Russia-occupied Donetsk, are speaking on the Russian propagandist 1st Channel. Photo: video capture.

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Ukraine’s Servants of the People coming out of the closet as ‘Servants of Russia,’ Portnikov says

The scandal arising from Yevhen Shevchenko’s suggestion on Moscow TV that Ukrainian defenders rather than Russian aggressors are…

byPaul A. Goble

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The rebellion: Servant of the People MPs unexpectedly reject president’s law, but for how long?

“Dissolve them all to hell! It’s deceit!” shouted Andriy Bohdan, head of the Presidential Office, at Dmytro Razumkov,…

byBohdan Ben

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Zelenskyy’s MPs set new records in violating parliamentary rules

Read also: Ukraine’s new Parliament violates regulations in its strong will to serve the people Zelenskyy submitted an…

byBohdan Ben

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the second session of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation. 3 September 2019. Photo: president.gov.ua

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Portnikov: “Unity” for robbery just like in Russia

When Vladimir Putin became the new president of Russia in 2000, he was opposed by a strong institutional…

byVitaly Portnikov

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Ukraine

Ukraine’s new Parliament violates regulations in its strong will to serve the people

The new just-appointed Cabinet of Ministers received moderately positive evaluations even from ex-President Poroshenko’s European Solidarity party that…

byBohdan Ben