Razumkov tried to balance in the parliament On 7 October, Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, voted to dismiss Dmytro Razumkov from the office of the Chairman of Verkhovna Rada. He moderated parliamentary sessions since 2019 when...
On the same day of the attempted assassination, President Zelenskyy delivered a speech to the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly. He called the perilous incident the price of change and reform in Ukraine (President.gov.ua,...
The expulsion of Geo Leros An urban art project director and former Zelenskyy advisor, turned-MP, Leros became a well-known public figure on 29 March, when he published videos alleging the brother of the head of the President’s...
ACT II – INSIGHT: RETAINING POWER BY ALL MEANS Avakov as beneficiary of the policy shift? President Zelenskyy’s shift in personnel policy – from “new faces” to “experienced people” – which...
Texty.org.ua journalist Liubov Velychko found herself under attack after publishing her research revealing pro-Russian messages on Telegram channels and its influence on MPs from the president’s Servant of the People’s party....
The COVID-19 coronavirus emergency gives Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a non-political excuse for stepping back from the plan that his envoy, Andrii Yermak, accepted from Russian presidential envoy Dmitry Kozak on March 11 in the...
The meeting of the Minsk-based Contact Group, held by videoconference on March 24–26, had been expected to officially create a new negotiating forum, named the Consultative Council—in fact, an accretion to the Minsk Contact...
On March 10, in Moscow, Ukraine’s leading Russophile politician Viktor Medvedchuk conferred with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Duma leaders about adding an “inter-parliamentary dimension” to the Normandy forum...
The scandal arising from Yevhen Shevchenko’s suggestion on Moscow TV that Ukrainian defenders rather than Russian aggressors are responsible for the continuation of the war is the latest surfacing of what may be the views of many in...
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...
