The Ukrainian Week

28 November, 2019	Politics	Ze voters The government can hardly count on support from the streets despite its high ratings
24 November, 2019	Politics	Reboot, relaunch, repeat How might the “servants of the people” take a chance and reboot governments in the regions?
31 October, 2019	Politics	Between the officious and the odious A look at the current online strategies of the two main rivals in the 2019 presidential campaign
30 October, 2019	Politics	Voting as a mirror image of voters Who voted for whom, or to what extent voter preferences coincide with the results of their choices
28 October, 2019	Politics	Portrait of the Servant as a young pol The current powers-that-be obviously reflect their voters, but wherein does the real similarity lie?
30 September, 2019	Politics	The force of evolution What conclusions the patriotic camp should draw from Ukraine’s presidential and parliamentary elections...
1 September, 2019	Politics	Dangerous road through the “best intentions” The hidden danger of “peace at any cost” made us realise that ending the war and reintegration of the occupied territories are two separate, unrelated issues
28 August, 2019	Politics	Behind the party scenes How the new parliament will be different from the previous one, and why the latest change is not a revolution
26 August, 2019	Politics	A war of sensations How the 2019 elections were different from all the previous ones in the Donbas
24 August, 2019	Politics	Under the pressure of its weight The only barrier to a long usurpation of power by the one-party propresident majority will be fragmentation of his faction in parliament amidst the lack of serious competition and temptations of power
20 July, 2019	Breaking news	Ukraine gears up for high-stakes parliamentary election Sunday's vote will determine newly-elected president's tenure as he needs power in legislature to implement his agenda
19 July, 2019	Politics	The well-known path How popular parties plan to implement rule of law reforms
17 July, 2019	Politics	Andriy Parubiy: “The current division into “old” and “new” politicians is the new Bolshevism” The Ukrainian Week discussed with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada the likely scenarios of revenge and means of its prevention, as well as the results of the government’s activity over the past five years
24 April, 2019	Breaking news	Sloviansk, where Donbas war started 5 years ago, sees peaceful election When Russian-backed separatists began their offensive in eastern Ukraine in spring 2014, the city of Sloviansk was the first one they took over. After several months, it was liberated, but it keeps its memory as the place where Russia’s war in eastern Ukraine, which killed over 13,000 people, started
23 April, 2019	Society	What will remain What will Ukraine rely on after any result of the election?
22 April, 2019	Breaking news	Comedian Zelensky wins presidency by landslide Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has scored a landslide victory in the country's presidential election
21 April, 2019	Breaking news	Ukrainian presidential election begins, surveys show comedian candidate leading the polls Ukrainians cast ballots Sunday in a presidential runoff which had the incumbent struggling to fend off a strong challenge by a comedian who denounces corruption and plays the role of president in a TV sitcom
21 April, 2019	Politics	“Nervous and predictable” How Donbas elected president after almost a decade break
15 April, 2019	Politics	Grimaces of show politics Why the development of political marketing can make democracy in Ukraine a threat to national security
12 April, 2019	Breaking news	Ukrainian comedian gets serious with investors in bid for presidency In a popular TV series, a fictional Ukrainian president gets so drunk at a dinner with the head of the International Monetary Fund that he throws her into a swimming pool
1 April, 2019	Breaking news	Ukraine election: Comedian leads presidential contest A comedian with no political experience has won the most votes in the first round of Ukraine's presidential elections, early results indicate
29 March, 2019	Society	Betting on zero How the current and former leadership of the self-declared republics in occupied Donbas see the upcoming elections for President of Ukraine
28 March, 2019	Politics	Candidates with compass Electoral preferences according to the map
25 March, 2019	Breaking news	Opening polling stations in Russia dangerous Ukrainian voters residing in Russia will be able to vote in the presidential election only by travelling to another country, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said
15 March, 2019	Politics	What’s in a campaign platform? What are the main candidates for president proposing in their platforms and how have these changed from what they proposed five years ago
13 March, 2019	Politics	Hiding new faces Why Ukraine’s parties are not social lifts and will never be, so unless they change fundamentally
11 March, 2019	Politics	Round 1: A warm-up Parliament and Ukrainian presidential election: action and reaction
10 March, 2019	Breaking news	Ukraine police: 15 officers injured in clash with far-right A clash was with far-right demonstrators who disrupted a campaign appearance of President Petro Poroshenko
25 February, 2019	Breaking news	Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky leads polls in Ukraine's presidential race The political novice's popularity with voters has left pundits scratching their heads — and some critics fearing he's biting off more than he can chew
20 February, 2019	Breaking news	Zelensky takes lead in Ukraine poll ahead of 2019 presidential vote Poroshenko and Tymoshenko's chances to make it to the second round are almost equal, experts say
4 February, 2019	Breaking news	Eighty-three presidential candidates registered in Ukraine The CEC is to officially announce the final registered list of candidates no later than February 9
25 January, 2019	Breaking news	Russia to spend US$350 mln for meddling in Ukraine elections Russia has developed three scenarios
7 January, 2019	Politics	Election 2019: Shifting positions How different is the current campaign in terms of political slogans and promises compared to 2014?
2 January, 2019	Politics	The traps of populism Apart from the desire for power, what drives presidential candidates to play with voters and how dangerous is this for Ukraine?
10 September, 2018	Politics	The chaos begins What to expect in the new parliamentary season
22 July, 2018	Politics	Multiple variables UAH 6,659, 11,951 and 7,451, an equivalent of $256, 450 and 280 – this is how an average Ukrainian sees desired subsistence, average wage and pension across Ukraine, according to SOCIS, a sociology center. According to the State Statistics Bureau, the real numbers are UAH 1,777, 8,725 and 2,479 respectively, or around $68, 335 and 95.
24 May, 2018	Politics	The art of the impossible The opposition in Ukraine is mostly reactive and it chooses actions that will be most useful for criticizing the current Administration or gaining the attention of a specific part of the electorate. What Ukraine needs most right now is a consolidating program and a party that could present its own alternative for the country
24 May, 2018	Politics	Political free-for-all The strange multiplication by division of political parties in Ukraine and their internecine infighting
23 March, 2018	Politics	Three cards up the sleeve What cyberthreats Ukraine is likely to face in 2019 elections, and what it is doing to prevent them
23 March, 2018	Politics	Deliberately undecided Who wins the next election won’t be decided by the voters who are now supporting various parties and candidates but by those who will vacillate until the very last minute
23 March, 2018	Politics	Vote busters What those in power and opposition are likely to do to improve their rates and mobilize the electorate
23 March, 2018	Politics	The spin-doctor headache Undecided voters are a tasty morsel for parties that are not in the Verkhovna Rada, yet none of these parties has much of a chance of winning them over in significant numbers
23 March, 2018	Society	Shades of the Fourth Republic What threats face Ukraine if a fragmented Verkhovna Rada is elected that does not represent the interests of the majority of Ukrainians?