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Petro 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 ArticleFrom DC swamp, Trump dives into Ukrainian cesspit
NEW YORK — Americans who think Donald Trump ushered in a new era of nastiness in the public sphere really don’t know dirty politics. But they are about to find out. No one chanted “lock her up” when...
View ArticleTrump calls Ukraine corrupt. He still wanted to build a resort there.
In 2006, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump traveled to Ukraine to meet with government officials about building a multimillion dollar hotel and golf course in the country. Two years later, Trump Jr....
View ArticleDozens of officials call for release of former Georgian leader Mikheil...
Dozens of former and current European elected officials joined numerous public figures on Monday to call for the release of the jailed former president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, citing a...
View ArticleUkraine’s Zelenskyy ups pressure on EU with plea for immediate membership
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy put the European Union on the spot on Monday, imploring the bloc to make good on expressions of support by granting his country immediate EU membership as it...
View ArticleVladimir Putin is making Ukrainians more Ukrainian
OPINION Russia’s invasion has given new impetus to the Western trajectory. Illustration by Wayne Brezinka for POLITICO Olga Oleinikova is the director of the Ukraine Democracy Initiative at the...
View Article8 times Ukraine’s Eurovision ride got political
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion has yet to get Ukraine membership in NATO or the European Union, but it does look set to push the country to its third victory in the annual...
View ArticleLeffe faces boycott calls as Ukraine conflict spills into Belgian beer industry
One of Belgium’s most iconic beer brands is facing calls for a boycott after bosses began production in breweries across Russia, months after President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Leffe beer...
View ArticleThe fall of Russia’s Odesa
David Kirichenko is a freelance journalist covering Eastern Europe and an editor at Euromaidan Press. He tweets @DVKirichenko. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forged a new sense of nationalism,...
View ArticleWhy Slovakia’s Fico hates Ukraine
ŠTRBSKÉ PLESO, Slovakia — Slovakia’s new leader Robert Fico made waves during the country’s recent election campaign by warning that he would not send “another bullet” to help Ukraine fend off the...
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