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How current and the next state leaders use the timeout

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

Ukrainian Security Service chief Vasyl Hrytsak will submit a report to President Petro Poroshenko analyzing how reasonable Opposition Platform – For Life party Chairman Viktor Medvedchuk’s involvement in negotiations on freeing Ukrainian captives is

Ukrainian military can now destroy any enemy ship within a radius of 300 kilometers

A comedian with no political experience has won the most votes in the first round of Ukraine's presidential elections, early results indicate

One Ukrainian serviceman died today in the Donbas conflict zone

Ukrainian President has proposed fresh legislation to fight corruption, a move that raised concerns the country is backtracking in the battle against corruption

Poroshenko and Tymoshenko's chances to make it to the second round are almost equal, experts say

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced he will seek reelection in the March presidential election, and vowed to press for European Union and NATO membership

Ukrianian President called the new law "part of our strategy towards fully breaking with the colonial past and reorientation towards Europe"

President Poroshenko has headed a delegation of top Ukrainian officials marking the fifth anniversary of the start of the Euromaidan protests

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signed an agreement on November 3 in Istanbul, outlining cooperation between Kyiv and the Patriarchate of Constantinople that paves the way for the establishment of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a plan that has angered Moscow

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko met on Friday to discuss trade and economic cooperation between their countries, Poroshenko's press service said

Petro Poroshenko speaks during his annual state-of-the-nation address in Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018.

As other candidates fumble to establish a footing, Yulia Tymoshenko is busy mobilizing resources for a third presidential run

What those in power and opposition are likely to do to improve their rates and mobilize the electorate

The shambolic renovation of the Central Electoral Commission, which has been in progress for several years now, looks about to be finally concluded. On Feb. 5, the President submitted a list of candidates to the Verkhovna Rada and this suggests that the process is finally being unblocked

Mistakes, unlearned lessons and consequences in the political confrontation between Ukraine’s leadership and Mikheil Saakashvili

What explains the tug-o-war between various enforcement agencies in Ukraine

What is known as of December 5

The odyssey of Mikheil Saakashvili had a happy ending for him but caused his opponents headaches and image problems

The annual speech of the President outlines accomplishments and failures. Over the course of modern Ukrainian history, the addresses have painted the image of the country’s every leader and his era in politics

President Poroshenko's state of the nation address to the Rada

Three years after being elected, the president faces the same problems as his predecessors

How Ukrainian social media users react to the President

What is needed for Ukraine to have a political force that is not linked to oligarchs

Who is vying for leadership in the Poroshenko Bloc and Yatseniuk's People’s Front

The new regular session of the Verkhovna Rada started on September 6. It looks like actors on Ukraine’s political scene, probably with the exception of Petro Poroshenko's Bloc and Arseniy Yatseniuk’s People's Front, have great expectations and ambitious plans for this fall seasons. Major oligarchs are likely to step up their game. The situation in the presidential team is not at its best either

What is Petro Poroshenko's team and who are the centres of influence in it

Although his powers are president of Ukraine are quite limited, over the last two years Petro Poroshenko has learned to use them like a virtuoso, allowing him considerable influence over the legislature and Government

The presidential party's approach to forming party lists and selecting candidates for single-member constituencies has divided it into a multitude of groups and even more basically independent MPs

Positive and negative results of austerity and painful economic reforms

Whose interests will guide the new SBU chief

What searches and arrests at the Prosecutor General's Office signal

Taming a few oligarchs will not change the oligarchic system, since Ukraine still has no organized alternative to it in the form of civil society or small and medium businesses

The President’s bloc is painfully reminiscent of Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine party mixed with elements of Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions

The parliamentary election may bring only few “new faces” to parliament

The Ukrainian Week talks to the Donetsk-born Yehor Firsov, the youngest MP in the Verkhovna Rada, about recipes for rapid career growth in politics, the bazaar atmosphere in parliament and the helpless Rinat Akhmetov

Ukraine signed the Association Agreement with the EU on Friday, June 27, in Brussels

Ukraine’s Premier Arseniy Yatseniuk believes that Russia has disrupted gas talks not least because of the upcoming visit of President Petro Poroshenko to Brussels to sign the economic part of the Association Agreement with the EU, he said when speaking in Parliament

Presidential elections are merely a prologue to the dramatic overhaul of political landscape

Central Election Commission announces Petro Poroshenko the President of Ukraine elected on May 25

Ukraine risks returning to the post-Orange Revolution internal squabbles very soon

Vitaliy Klitschko who was considered as one of the candidates for presidency backs Ukrainian tycoon Petro Poroshenko for this post in the May 25 elections.

Yuriy Lutsenko is going to create a new political project. The question is whether he will make the same mistakes as were made during the launch of People’s Self-Defence and whether the new organization will be constructed to serve the interests of Petro Poroshenko