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Ukraine delays Tymoshenko vote
The Ukrainian parliament today delayed a vote on whether to allow the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko to receive medical treatment in Germany. The vote is a first step towards Tymoshenko’s...
View ArticleUkraine rejects Tymoshenko bills
The Ukrainian parliament has rejected a set of laws that would enable the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko to receive medical treatment in Germany. The vote – the second time that the...
View ArticleNew political battles
The centre-right European People’s Party is backing Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution of a decade ago. The EPP said that Tymoshenko would attend...
View ArticleUkraine’s U-turn
When Ukrainians took to the streets after President Viktor Yanukovych reneged on a deal with the European Union, they heralded the end of Ukraine as we knew it. Three months on, Ukraine is already a...
View ArticleUkraine moves towards radical decentralisation
A proposal for a radical decentralisation of Ukraine will be sent to the Ukrainian parliament next Thursday (15 May), the first major step towards satisfying internationally scrutinised agreements to...
View ArticleOn a path to decentralisation?
Ukraine is set to hold presidential elections on 25 May, to remove its post-Maidan government from the legal limbo in which it now waits, and to give the Ukrainian people the chance to make their...
View ArticleUkraine gives strong mandate to Poroshenko
Ukraine’s presidential election were won decisively in the first round on Sunday (25 May) by Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire businessman and politician. His victory, though not yet officially...
View ArticlePetro Poroshenko: Chocolate president
When he became president of Ukraine in May, Petro Poroshenko swept away the notion of Ukraine as an inherently divided state, by winning in every region. On 27 June, he committed Ukraine to...
View ArticleMaidan coalition breaks up
Ukraine’s two leading politicians have decided not to combine forces for parliamentary elections in October, leaving questions about the long-term unity of the country’s pro-reform and pro-European...
View ArticlePoroshenko hobbles on
KIEV — It was meant to be a local election campaign like no other, a scrubbed-up democratic exercise following two years of death and sacrifice. Yet Sunday’s vote in Ukraine was a depressing return to...
View ArticleUkraine’s governing coalition loses majority
KIEV — Ukraine’s ruling coalition collapsed Thursday, setting off the second political crisis in a week in the country after the government survived a no-confidence vote at the beginning of the week....
View ArticleFreed Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko could seek presidency
KIEV – Nadia Savchenko, the Ukrainian military pilot held prisoner by Moscow for two years, looks likely to remain the same firebrand as she was in captivity, calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a...
View ArticleFreed pilot Nadiya Savchenko calls Ukrainian lawmakers ‘lazy schoolchildren’
Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko made a fiery first appearance in the Ukrainian parliament Tuesday, one week after she was released from a Russian prison. Draped in the Ukrainian flag and...
View ArticleTrump tells Ukrainian politician he won’t lift Russia sanctions
During an unusual private meeting on the sidelines of Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump promised a Ukrainian opposition leader that the United States won’t lift sanctions on...
View ArticleEx-Georgian president freed from detention in Ukraine
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was freed from detention in Ukraine on Monday, after a judge rejected prosecutors’ request to put him under house arrest. “The prosecutors’ petition … is...
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Living with the ghosts of Maidan
KIEV, Ukraine — I’m staying in a suite on one of the top floors of Hotel Ukraine. It’s February 20, four years to the day since dozens of protesters in Independence Square in Kiev were shot dead by...
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Inside the lobbying campaign that caught Mueller’s attention
The lobbyists hired by Paul Manafort launched a lobbying blitz barely a week after the Senate began weighing a resolution to publicly condemn the man who was effectively their client, Ukrainian...
View ArticleLviv mayor declares bid for Ukraine presidency
KIEV, Ukraine — Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of Lviv and leader of the Self-Reliance Party, will run in next year’s Ukrainian presidential election, challenging the incumbent, Petro Poroshenko. Sadovyi,...
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Yulia Tymoshenko
Ukraine’s future is again bound up in the political ambitions of Yulia Tymoshenko. The fate of the two-time prime minister and her country are once more tightly woven together — like the blonde halo...
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Ukraine’s joke of an election
KIEV — There’s a joke circulating in the Ukrainian capital: “For years, we have voted for serious people, and all we got is farce. So why not vote for a comedian and see what happens?” Ukrainians are...
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