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EU slams Russia for ‘another attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty’
The European Union condemned Vladimir Putin’s decision to fast-track Russian citizenship for people living in parts of eastern Ukraine. “The signature by President Putin of a decree entitling, inter alia, people who permanently reside in certain areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions to apply for Russian citizenship in a...
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[Ticker] EU: Russian citizenship plan ‘attacks’ Ukraine sovereignty
Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decree to allow residents in the Moscow-backed rebel-held Ukrainian eastern regions citizenship in a simplified manner “is another attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty by Russia,” the spokesperson for EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said in a statement on Thursday. The move...
Debate: Russia set to hand out passports in eastern Ukraine?
Russia wants to make it easier for residents of occupied territories in Ukraine to become Russian citizens by simplifying and accelerating the passport issuing process. Applicants will not even have to demonstrate a knowledge of Russian. Commentators see Russia using passports to pursue its territorial ambitions. …read more Source:...
Debate: Russland gibt Pässe an Ostukrainer aus
Russland will es den Bewohnern der besetzten Gebiete in der Ukraine leichter machen, zu russischen Staatsangehörigen zu werden. Die Passvergabe soll vereinfacht und beschleunigt werden. Bewerber müssen nicht einmal russische Sprachkenntnisse nachweisen. Kommentatoren meinen: Russland betreibt Politik mittels Passvergabe. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Putin offers Russian citizenship to Ukraine regions
Russian president Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a decree to allow residents in the eastern Ukraine territories, held by Moscow-backed rebels, to obtain Russian citizenship under a simplified procedure. The move piles pressure on Ukraine’s president-elect Volodymyr Zelensky, who won by a landslide last Sunday and promised renewed peace...
Ukraine’s new president just won the first ever successful virtual campaign
KIEV — Volodymyr Zelensky, who was elected president of Ukraine by a landslide on Sunday, is probably the least prepared individual to head a democracy in world history. Until this weekend, his main experience in politics was playing a schoolteacher who becomes the president in a satirical television program. He ran with no party affiliation....
Debate: What can Zelensky do for Ukraine?
After winning a sweeping victory with 73 percent of the vote in Ukraine’s presidential election Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that as president he will fight corruption and seek a peaceful end to the conflict in Donbass. Zelensky is politically inexperienced and made a name for himself as an actor in a comedy series. Commentators have...
Debate: Ukraine: Selenskyj besiegt Poroschenko
Nach seinem deutlichen Sieg bei der Präsidentschaftswahl in der Ukraine mit 73 Prozent der Stimmen hat Wolodomyr Selenskyj angekündigt, die Korruption zu bekämpfen und den Konflikt im Donbass zu befrieden. Der politisch unerfahrene Selenskyj war als Schauspieler einer Comedy-Serie bekannt geworden. Kommentatoren reagieren mit gemischten Gefühlen...
Ukraine comic-president invited to EU capitals
EU leaders have invited Ukrainian TV comic Volodymyr Zelensky to Berlin and Brussels after he became the country’s new president in a landslide victory on Sunday. …read more Source:...
6 takeaways from Ukraine’s presidential vote
KIEV — Ukraine’s presidential election proved sometimes it’s reality that mirrors fiction when Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who played the president on a TV show, won in a landslide victory. But the vote also shed light on how cultural and political dynamics have evolved in the country over the five years since a pro-Western revolution shook...
