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Ukraine heads to polls in first round of presidential election
Polls have opened in the first round of Ukraine’s Presidential election. …read more Source:...
Comedian is the favourite as Ukraine votes for president
Ukrainians will cast their ballots in a presidential election on Sunday in which a comedian with no political experience and who plays a fictional president in a popular TV series is tipped to win the first round. …read more Source: France...
Presidential election in Ukraine analysis with Gulliver Cragg
Presidential election in Ukraine analysis with Gulliver Cragg …read more Source: France...
Searching for an end to eastern Ukraine’s war ahead of presidential polls
The conflict in eastern Ukraine has claimed around 13,000 lives, a quarter of them civilians. That’s according to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. Although Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on the UN secretary-general back in February to draw up options for a peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine,...
No joke: Comedian Zelenskiy leads race to Ukrainian presidency
Ukrainians head to the polls on Sunday for the first round of presidential elections. Many are disappointed in incumbent Petro Poroshenko for his failure to address corruption. They don’t think much of his more traditional rival, former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, either. Instead, the frontrunner in the polls is Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a...
Ukraine elections: The plight of IDPs
Since the start of the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014, some 1.5 million people have been internally displaced, fleeing the conflict in the eastern regions. Ukraine is the ninth largest country in the world in terms of the number of internally displaced persons, also known as IDPs. While their status as IDPs guarantees them certain rights,...
Final day of campaigning in Ukraine elections
Politicians in Ukraine will be finishing their electoral campaigns today, ahead of Sunday’s presidential election. …read more Source:...
Russian zoo animals place their bets on Ukraine’s presidential frontrunners
Zoo animals in Russia have been tasked with predicting the outcome of this weekend’s presidential election in Ukraine …read more Source:...
BBC agrees to pay damages to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko over ‘incorrect report’
The British broadcaster released an apology to the Ukrainian president, saying it had agreed to pay him damages over an “incorrect report.” …read more Source:...
Ukraine presidential election: how do Ukrainians feel ahead of the vote?
Here is the view from Ukraine ahead of a presidential election on Sunday. …read more Source:...
