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Debate: Estland – Diplomaten kritisieren Regierung
Matti Maasikas, estnischer Spitzendiplomat und neuer EU-Botschafter in der Ukraine, hat vergangene Woche auf Twitter den außenpolitischen Kurs der neuen Tallinner Regierung hinterfragt und verwies auf Schwierigkeiten estnischer Diplomaten, die Politik der konservativ-rechtsextremen Koalition zu erklären. Das rechtsextreme Lager reagierte mit...
The spectre of a Russian Maidan | Obosrevatel – Ukraine
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Legacy of spies tests Ukraine’s new president
KIEV — Like most good actors, Volodymyr Zelenskiy relishes a challenging role. He sought Ukraine’s presidency despite a complete lack of political experience. Then, after a stunning landslide win, he called early parliamentary elections, leading his new political movement to an absolute majority last weekend with the largest seat count of...
Debate: Moscow’s take on change of government in Kiev?
The party of Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky has won an absolute majority of seats in the Rada, replacing an entire generation of parliamentarians who held sway over Ukraine for two decades. Eastern European media in particular speculate on what consequences this change of government could have for Russia. …read more Source:...
Time for Ukraine’s comedian president to get serious
It’s show time for superstar Ukrainian comic-turned-President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Sunday’s parliamentary election handed the political novice an overwhelming popular mandate to push through the reforms he promised in the run-up to the presidential election in May, where he unseated the incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko, in a...
[Ticker] Ukrainian president’s party tops parliament election
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s party scored some 42 percent in the parliamentary election, according to preliminary results on Monday. The pro-Kremlin opposition received the second-highest number of votes at 12.5 percent. The 41-year-old comedian-turned-president has appealed to voters by promising to negotiate a political...
Comedian-turned-president wins again in Ukraine
KIEV — The party of comic-turned-President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won a decisive victory in Ukraine’s parliamentary election on Sunday, strengthening the political novice’s hold on power and giving him a broad mandate to push through key reforms in the war-torn nation. Zelenskiy rode a wave of public anger over the lack of progress...
Von der Leyen rows back on ‘United States of Europe’
Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen said she no longer advocates for the European Union to become a federal state after previously calling for the bloc to turn into “the United States of Europe.” In an interview with a group of European newspapers published Thursday, she said her dream of a federalized EU had become “more mature and...
Putin is backing his buddies | LB.ua – Ukraine
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Putin backs Medvedchuk | LB.ua – Ukraine
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