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Editor’s Note: The following report on Ukraine’s presidential election on March 31 was prepared by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems. When is Election Day? The presidential election i
Mar. 27, 2019
This year a record number of 39 candidates are running, beating the previous record of 24 candidates in the 2004 presidential election. Although 44 candidates registered, five took down their candidac
Mar. 27, 2019
An amended bill on the legal status of war veterans and their social protection in Ukraine came into effect on March 26, nearly three months after it was approved. The law grants official veteran stat
Mar. 26, 2019
Ukraine International Airlines posted a net loss of almost Hr 2.7 billion (about $100 million) in 2018, or about nine times more than it lost in 2017, Ukrainian media reported on March 25, citing a UI
Mar. 26, 2019
A photo of the Rodina Mat monument cutting through the Kyiv fog with a sword, taken by Kyiv photographer Sergey Ristenko, has won a People’s Choice Prize in the international SkyPixel Aerial Photograp
Mar. 22, 2019
Since the beginning of 2019, some 19 attacks on water supply systems in Donbas have already been recorded. The UN Children’s Fund UNICEF has called to stop the aggression. “In 2018 alone, water supply
Mar. 22, 2019
Here’s something few might have predicted: the market for the services of psychics is booming in Ukraine, with hundreds of advertisements online and on the streets featuring mysterious people wearing
Mar. 22, 2019
The Sviatoshynsky District Court of Kyiv, which is considering the case on charges of five ex-employees of the Berkut riot police in the killings of Maidan activists, on March 19 refused to question t
Mar. 21, 2019
An extraordinary row has broken out between Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko and the U.S. embassy in Ukraine, with Lutsenko claiming the embassy gave him a list of people not to prosecute,
Mar. 21, 2019
Ukraine’s gross domestic product grew by 3 percent in 2018, and part of that growth was due to a recovery of the real estate market. Building companies, real estate agents and other market participant
Mar. 18, 2019
Foreigners who came to Ukraine in the heady days right after independence tended to fall into two camps: Those who succeeded and stayed, and those who failed and left. Phil Hudson, owner of Jones East
Mar. 18, 2019
Ukraine and Finland are launching a joint four-year project to support the reform of the New Ukrainian School. The presentation of the project titled “Learning Together” took place as part of the Day
Mar. 17, 2019
These two women share their stories of sexism and gender inequality in the Ukrainian army and beyond. Read more here.
Mar. 17, 2019
VASYLKIV and VINNYTSIA, Ukraine — On a chilly morning in early spring, humid mist and low clouds hang over the air base of Vasylkiv, a city of 36,000 people located 30 kilometers southwest of Kyiv. It
Mar. 15, 2019
The Serbian Orthodox Church has refused to recognize the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) as canonical and calls it “an artificial confederation of schismatic structures.” Read more here
Mar. 13, 2019
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PARIS — The flight to Tel Aviv was preparing for takeoff when Bilal Hassani, France’s Eurovision nominee, accepted a handset from the flight attendants. Read the full story here.
Mar. 12, 2019