Section: The United Kingdom
Ukraine’s Tymoshenko: ‘gas princess’, prisoner, and next president?
Yulia Tymoshenko has been Ukraine’s prime minister twice, was the global face of a revolution, imprisoned by two different presidents, and the target of an operation to discredit her by President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager. …read more Source:...
Comedian takes center stage in Ukraine’s presidential race
In a popular Ukrainian TV series, comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy plays a president who is scrupulously honest and outwits crooked lawmakers and shadowy businessmen who try to stand in his way. …read more Source:...
Meet the comedian who’s on track to be Ukraine’s next president – video explainer
Until recently Vladimir Zelenskiy was known for playing the part of an accidental president in the popular Ukrainian television show Servant of the People. Then on New Year’s Eve he announced that life would be imitating art with his candidacy in this year’s presidential elections, the first round of which is on 31 March. Zelenskiy...
No joke: comic takes centre stage in race for Ukraine presidency
Vladimir Zelenskiy, whose character becomes president in hit TV show, leading pollsVladimir Zelenskiy may just joke his way to becoming Ukraine’s next leader. A comic actor who plays a teacher who unexpectedly becomes president in a hit Ukrainian TV show after his rant against corrupt politicians goes viral, he is now pitching for the top...
Real life or Black Mirror?: Comedian who could be Ukraine’s next president – video
Until recently Vladimir Zelenskiy was known for playing the part of an accidental president in the popular Ukrainian television show Servant of the People. Then on New Year’s Eve he announced that life would be imitating art with his candidacy in this year’s presidential elections, the first round of which is on 31 March. Zelenskiy...
Ukraine president tries to salvage corruption law as tough election looms
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko proposed fresh legislation on Thursday aimed at fighting corruption, after the constitutional court threw out a previous anti-graft law, raising concerns that the country was backtracking on the issue. …read more Source:...
Revisiting Chernobyl: ‘It is a huge cemetery of dreams’
The 1986 nuclear disaster blighted Ukraine and changed the world. Serhii Plokhy, who won the Baillie Gifford prize for his history of the tragedy, returns to the once sought-after Soviet town‘These buildings are the tombstones of the dreams and lives that were lived here. It’s a huge cemetery of dreams, if not of people.” From the top of an...
Counting Sheep review – feverish show recreates Kiev uprising
The Vaults, LondonThis viscerally powerful piece about the 2014 revolution divides the audience into protesters and observersOriginally conceived by Mark and Marichka Marczyk, this piece of immersive theatre about the Kiev uprising of 2014 was first seen at the Edinburgh festival three years ago.Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin of the Belarus...
Candidates are the biggest flaw in Ukraine’s presidential polls
None of this trio inspires confidence that they would lose habits of overt and veiled government by oligarchy …read more Source: Financial...
No gas? No votes. Subsidy cuts imperil Ukraine leader’s reelection bid
Ukrainian pensioner Nadiya Ignatiy says she has had the plum and cherry trees in her garden cut down for firewood since the government raised gas prices late last year. …read more Source:...
