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Ukraine’s parliament elects Zelenskyy loyalist as speaker: possible outcomes
[editorial]On 8 October, the Ukrainian parliament elected a new Speaker of Verkhovna Rada. The consequences of this for…
Zelenskyy’s party expels whistleblower but the monolith has cracked
[editorial]One year after the parliamentary elections, Zelenskyy’s power has gradually diminished. His strong single-party parliamentary majority no longer…
Quarantine parliament: Ukrainians rally against using coronavirus situation to rush treasonous laws
Mass protests and demands The police claim that 5,000 people participated in the March of Patriots conducted on…
Impeachment, MP immunity, plastic bag ban, and Constitutional amendments. Ukraine’s latest major laws
On 23 December, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a bill that grants the status of combatants and provides social…
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,…
Prime minister resigns, Parliament is dismissed as Ukraine enters period of turbulence
According to the Constitution, the Ukrainian President is very limited in his power. The Parliament appoints the Government,…
Why Poroshenko did not dismiss Yatseniuk
The possibility of early elections turned out to be more threatening than a shaky peace with the prime…
12 new MP’s without university degrees
Twelve of the members of the newly elected Verkhovna Rada do not hold university degrees. This data is…
Coalition: three or five?
President Petro Poroshenko himself proposed to his colleagues to nominate Arseniy Yatseniuk. “The President’s proposal which was supported…
First Ukrainian
These are the two words that come to mind when evaluating the first results of the early elections…
Ukraine’s central and regional Electoral Committee servers secure, not hacked
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), together with the State Service for Special Communication of Ukraine, ensures the uninterrupted…
Experts: the elections will be democratic. The main threat is war
The biggest challenge for this year’s parliamentary campaign will be the attempts to disrupt or manipulate the results…
Parliamentary elections in Ukraine: the how’s
One out of five Ukrainians will not come to vote, and one out of three of those who…
Provocations near the Verkhovna Rada: pre-electoral PR or FSB?
The Verkhovna Rada session was followed by explosives, fire at the windows of the Parliament and clashes between…
Elections. Will the Party of Regions make a comeback?
With the day of parliamentary elections approaching, the leaders of political powers which have something or other to…
Buying votes in 2014: help for ATO soldiers, refugees and regular meal packs
Victory at the early parliamentary elections in only one district will cost majority candidates between 1 and 3…
Yatseniuk leads new ‘front line’ bloc, may unite with the President’s party
Yevgen Solonyna Kyiv – Prime Minister Yatseniuk, former Front for Change leader, is leading yet another front, a political…
The participants of the early parliamentary elections
Dariya Kravchenko, Anna Kovalchuk How the Party of Regions will try to hide its past and how the…
Poroshenko dissolves the Verkhovna Rada
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko disbanded the Verkhovna Rada. He wrote about this in his official Twitter and Facebook…
Why the Rada needs to disband and Yatseniuk needs to resign
The events of the recent days in the Ukrainian Parliament have broken out of their chains and gone…
