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Ukraine: Candidates clash ahead of presidential poll
Ukraine’s rival presidential candidates hold a long-awaited head-to-head televised debate. …read more Source:...
Putting the east in Easter: Ukrainian decorated eggs – in pictures
Pysanka is the Ukrainian tradition of egg decoration at Easter. Pysanky are created using a batik method: the eggs are covered in wax and then dyed. In 1968, Erast Binyashevsky published The Ukrainian Pysanka, the first book to detail the practice, documenting regional styles in watercolour illustrations. “Binyashevsky was important because his...
Ukraine election set to deliver damning verdict on traditional politics
Likely election of comedian Zelenskiy will be the result of an anti-establishment vote“There’s a 90% chance he’ll be a disaster, but I’m going to vote for him anyway,” said Alyona Sych, a 36-year-old nurse, strolling through Kyiv in the spring sunshine and explaining why she plans to vote for an untested actor and comedian in...
Ukraine’s TV star turned politician could uproot corrupt elites
Petro Poroshenko will have managed to pull off something pretty close to a miracle if he manages to beat his rival Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Sunday’s presidential election run-off vote. …read more Source: Sky...
Ukrainian presidential candidates trade insults in final debate
The two men vying to be Ukraine’s next president traded insults and accusations in a final raucous debate on Friday in front of thousands of supporters ahead of a decisive run-off vote this weekend. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s presidential rivals trade insults in raucous stadium debate
Polls suggest comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy is due to score an overwhelming victory in Sunday’s voteA noisy, boisterous standoff in a cavernous stadium. A police cordon separating the two rival fan sections, rock music pumping and insults flying. It had the feeling of a boxing grudge match, but instead it was the final act of Ukraine’s...
Putin ally to Ukraine’s probable new leader: Reconcile with Moscow and get territory back
Ukraine’s new president could regain control over the separatist-controlled east of his country within months and get cheap gas and major investment from Russia if he repairs ties with Moscow, the Kremlin’s closest ally in Ukraine said. …read more Source:...
Ukraine awaits comic v oligarch election duel
A clash between comedian Volodymyr Zelensky and the outgoing president is eagerly awaited. …read more Source:...
A referendum on Poroshenko but also a very Ukrainian election
Some question whether rival is also shackled by old system that reasserted itself despite hopes of Maidan revolutionWhen Petro Poroshenko won Ukraine’s presidential election five years ago, it was with the campaign slogan: “Live in a new way!”Ukrainians voted for him in the hope he would make real the hopes and desires of all those who had...
Is Ukraine about to elect a comedian as its next president? – podcast
Ukrainians look set to elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a comedian and actor with no political experience, as their new president on Sunday. Andrew Roth discusses the events that have taken him to the brink of power. Plus: Peter Tatchell on why the British police should not be providing leadership training to officers in BruneiA comedian who plays a...
