Sunday’s vote will determine newly-elected president’s tenure as he needs power in legislature to implement his agenda. Three months after Volodymyr Zelensky won a landslide victory in Ukraine‘s presidential elections, the comedian-turned-politician is facing his first major political test in Sunday’s snap parliamentary vote. ...
It has been four years since Ukrainians took to the streets to call for corruption-free democratic governance and rule of law. Today, with the European project in dire straits, the demand of the Maidan protesters – to move Ukraine out of the ...
As with every other analyst, activist, journalist, critic and pundit involved with Ukrainian politics, it was with extreme sadness and trepidation that I heard about the assassination of Pavel Sheremet. The prominent investigative reporter for the respected Ukrayinska Pravda had been driving ...
The doping scandal is the latest in a string of misadventures in Putin’s pursuit of Soviet-style greatness. On November 10, the story of Russia’s state-organised athletic doping programme exploded on to front pages worldwide. Apparently, the scale is so egregious ...
The ignominious end of Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakhstan’s most feared man, heir apparent, sugar czar, fugitive. On the morning of February 24, the warden of Vienna’s Josefstadt prison announced the suicide by hanging of his most notorious inmate. Rakhat Aliyev, former ...
Did Boris Nemtsov, the bogeyman of Russia’s rising nationalism, push his luck by provoking Putin repeatedly? You could see his tall imposing frame and handsome face towering over his comrades-in-arms in the front line of anti-Kremlin demonstrations that rumbled down ...
Ukraine stands on the precipice of war as pressure mounts on Putin, seen as ‘saviour’ of the Eastern Slavic world. On May 4, in New York, a panel was held at the PEN International Literature Festival, devoted to the fall ...
By issuing ultimatums and then failing to follow up, Kiev has further emboldened the rabble-rousers. A city mayor is placed under house arrest and held incommunicado, a local and then a foreign journalist get kidnapped, and three bodies are pulled ...
Even without an armed conflict, Russia’s Crimean adventure has set it on a course of protracted collision with the West. The scene in the Kremlin’s opulent St George’s Hall on March 18 could have come straight from a Soviet TV ...
