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Highlights from the Kyiv Post print edition
- Find all the stories in our Feb. 22 print edition here.
2019 Presidential Election
- Interior Minister Arsen Avakov says someone is plotting a “provocation” against him to discredit the Interior Ministry and the March 31 Ukrainian presidential election.
- Presidential candidate Anatoliy Grytsenko, Ukraine’s former defense minister, has won a case against the Central Election Commission in Ukraine’s Supreme Court. The victory will grant Grytsenko more access to the national register of voters.
Kyiv Post online exclusives
- Ukrainian pop singer Maruv has won the national selection to represent Ukraine in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv — on one condition: that she cancel two upcoming concerts in Russia.
- Around 340 parishes have joined the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The parishes were formerly part of the Moscow Patriarchate.
- Across the country, Ukrainians took to the streets on Feb. 24 to protest the use of fur in fashion. Check out our photos of the Kyiv demonstration.
- Over 10,000 Russians came out on Feb. 24 in Moscow and St. Petersburg to commemorate the life of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, a longstanding Russian opposition politician. Nemtsov was assassinated of Feb. 27, 2015 while crossing a bridge near the Kremlin. We have photos from the memorial march.
- It’s undoubtedly one of the most creative ways to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the EuroMaidan Revolution: a rock musical called “Got to be free.”Check it out.
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