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Zelenskiy Casts Ballot In Ukrainian Parliamentary Vote
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, joined other voters in Kyiv to cast ballots in Ukraine’s snap parliamentary election. The July 21 vote came after Zelenskiy dissolved parliament early in a bid to get legislative mandate in order to push through reforms. Zelenskiy won the country’s...
Zelenskiy Seeks Fresh Mandate For Reform As Ukrainians Vote For New Parliament
Ukrainians were set to choose a new parliament in a vote seen as a barometer of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s popularity two months after a resounding election victory following his meteoric rise as a political outsider. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Renewal Or ‘Revanche’? Buzzwords Of Ukraine’s Parliamentary Elections Forecast Tension Following Vote
Parliamentary elections on July 21 are likely to put plenty of new faces in Ukraine’s legislature. But some politicians say they’re bracing for “revanche,” warning that the return of figures from the Viktor Yanukovych era would risk a tilt toward Russia and a rollback of progress made after the Euromaidan protests that...
The Week In Russia: Not That Much Of A Mystery, Riddle, Or Enigma
With three of its citizens facing murder charges as increasingly detailed information about how Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down, Russia is still casting it as a “crash” whose cause is a mystery — a familiar tactic when Moscow’s involvement in mayhem abroad and at home leads to tragedy. …read more Source:...
Zelenskiy Won Ukrainian Voters Over With Ease; Winning Trump Over May Be Tougher
After parliamentary elections on July 21, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will take a big trip abroad: to Washington. Zelenskiy shares a common background with Donald Trump, but can he win over a U.S. president who has made his desire for warmer relations with Russia clear? …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian President’s Office Proposes Sentsov, Vyshinsky Prisoner Swap
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office has proposed a prisoner exchange with Russia involving Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who is jailed in Russia, and Russian journalist Kirill Vyshinsky, who is in detention in Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Volker: Moscow Passport Move For Donbas Residents Diverges From Peace Plan
WASHINGTON — Kurt Volker, the special U.S. envoy to Ukraine, says Russia’s move to fast-track the granting of citizenship to all residents of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk runs counter to efforts to achieve peace in an armed conflict that is in its fifth year. Volker said that by expediting Russian passports for...
US Lawmaker Group on Ukraine Drafts Sanctions on 24 Russians Over 24 Detained Ukrainian Sailors
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers dedicated to Ukrainian issues has introduced legislation to sanction members of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) over their role in taking 24 Ukrainian crewmen captive last November near the Kerch Strait. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
‘Without Further Delay’: European Parliament Calls On Russia To Release Detained Ukrainians
The European Parliament has overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on Russian authorities “to release without further delay and unconditionally all illegally and arbitrarily detained Ukrainian citizens both in Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
As Soldiers Disengage, ‘Fragile Hope’ For Peace Appears In One Front-Line Ukrainian Town
In a season of elections and political change in Ukraine, a cease-fire and troop pullback in the battle-scarred town of Stanytsya Luhanska show peace in the east is possible. But along the rest of the 400-kilometer-long front line, fighting has flared more than five years into a war that remains one of the major points of tension between Russia...
