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Parliament’s big day explained: speaker, prime minister and 100 laws

The new political season kicks off on Aug. 29, with the newly elected parliament gathering for the first time and promising a lot from the …
Oleksiy Sorokin

Ukrinform: Central Election Commission registers 145 people’s deputies

Ukraine’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has registered 63 more people’s deputies elected in snap parliamentary elections on July 21, bringing the …
UkrInform

First session of new parliament to be held on Aug. 29

The newly elected Ukrainian parliament will hold its first ceremonial session on Aug. 29, said Dmytro Razumkov, leader of the Servant of the People …
Oleksiy Sorokin

Alexander Khrebet: Don’t write off the Donbas yet

It’s tempting to write off the Donbas as backward, hopelessly Soviet, fodder for pro-Russian political parties, and inhospitable to new ideas and the …
Alexander Khrebet

Lloyd Axworthy: Ukrainians assert the power of the ballot box

On the morning of July 21, I was in a polling station in Obukhiv, Ukraine, as a member of Canada’s election observation team. At stake: Could the …
Lloyd Axworthy

Servant of the People Party wins 124 mandates on party ticket in Rada elections

The Ukrainian Central Election Commission has announced the results of the early parliamentary elections held on July 21 for the multi-mandate …
Interfax-Ukraine

UNIAN: Election commission announces official results of parliamentary elections

The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Ukraine has announced official results of the snap parliamentary elections. Read more here.
UNIAN

Orysia Lutsevych, Alyona Getmanchuk: Ukraine’s parliamentary elections

Orysia Lutsevych and Alyona Getmanchuk break down the key aspects of the historic poll. 1. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s party scored the first ever …
Orysia Lutsevych
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Alyona Getmanchuk

Financial Times: Boot-camp shakes Ukraine’s parliamentary ‘nobodies’

In a spa resort in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, the 250 novices who form Volodymyr Zelensky’s parliamentary troops mustered for a …
Financial Times

Patchwork Party: Newly-elected lawmakers get training, prepare to take over parliament

TRUSKAVETS, Ukraine — It was a strange sight: Dozens of men and women with green badges walking among relaxed holidaymakers in white bathrobes. The …
Oksana Grytsenko

Reuters: Ukraine’s Zelensky opens boot camp for his 254 rookie lawmakers

What’s your biggest weakness and could it get you into trouble? Read more here.
Reuters

Central Election Commission adopts protocols’ originals of all 199 district commissions

The Central Election Commission (CEC) has adopted the originals of the protocols on the results of voting in the extraordinary parliamentary elections …
Interfax-Ukraine

Yuri Polakiwsky: A plan to transform Ukraine’s notoriously bad parliament

With the culmination of the electoral season in Ukraine, there can be no doubt that voters pronounced a severe judgement on the country’s political …
Yuri Polakiwsky

Andreas Umland: Three easy wins for Ukraine

There are three changes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his parliamentary majority can quickly make in order to magnify the effect of …
Andreas Umland

President’s chief of staff: New parliament won’t convene before Sept. 1

The new Ukrainian parliament won’t be able to convene before September, according to Andriy Bohdan, head of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s …
Artur Korniienko

Alex Ryabchyn: Coolest 5 years of my life

Those were the coolest five years of my life. Now the excitement from service to Ukraine is changing gradually to forgotten adrenaline from the new …
Alex Ryabchyn

Kyiv Post Newsy Vlog: Ukraine swipes left on establishment lawmakers

On July 21, Ukraine went to the polls to elect a new parliament. Voters gave President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party an …
Anna Yakutenko
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Matthew Kupfer

Hromadske: Lessons commence for Servant of the People MPs

The incoming Servant of the People MPs have just started a very intensive 7-day course at the Kyiv School of Economics.
Hromadske International
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