Christopher Miller is a correspondent based in Kyiv who covers the former Soviet republics.
After comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s rise to the presidency, rocker Svyatoslav Vakarchuk wants to be the next entertainer to hit the political big time in Ukraine. Can he parlay his star status into a big chunk of parliamentary seats for his party in the July 21 elections?
Clashing egos, infighting, and affiliations with establishment politicians may have spelled the demise of the liberal lawmakers once hailed as Ukraine’s political saviors. The July 21 elections may seal their fate.
Darth Viktorovych Vader, director of Dark Side of the Force, LLC, has been appointed by the Bloc of Darth Vader party to run for a parliamentary seat in Odesa.
Ukraine’s new president says relocating the administration offices will help dispel a reputation for corruption in government and encourage transparency. Critics worry about the cost and say the move to a busy Kyiv intersection may make traffic jams worse.
On July 19, international investigators announced plans to try three Russians and one Ukrainian for murder in the July 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, which killed 298 people.
The chief organizer of a 2014 Donetsk separatist "independence" referendum in eastern Ukraine condemned by the international community has been detained by Ukrainian authorities, Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko has announced.
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has documented more than 500 cases of ill-treatment, incommunicado detention, and torture by both Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists since the conflict erupted in April 2014, the mission’s head said in Kyiv on June 13.
The missiles would have no immediate battlefield use, since Russian military aircraft have not been used in the conflict. Still, the move sends another clear message where Congress stands on the war in Ukraine.
Even his predecessor's supporters seemed to think Ukraine's new president said all the right things in Brussels. Perhaps that's because they'd heard remarkably similar things from Petro Poroshenko himself.
Since his appointment in early 2014, Arsen Avakov has survived changes of government and numerous calls for his resignation over perceived police botches.
In Brussels, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has a chance to set a new tone in foreign policy and show key partners he's serious about European integration -- and aggressively pursuing reforms.
Mikheil Saakashvili returned to Ukraine on May 29, arriving amid a political transition a day after new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reinstated the former Georgian leader's citizenship in a country he told RFE/RL he considers his homeland.
Ukraine's new president crowdsourced his platform during his campaign. Now, sticking to unorthodoxy, Volodymyr Zelenskiy is using an online project to solicit the public for ideas and applications for spots on his team.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's newly formed political party has appointed campaign adviser Dmytro Razumkov as its head and will interview prospective candidates to fill its party list ahead of snap parliamentary elections in July, party representatives have said.
The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine is departing her position in May, two months ahead of schedule.
President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy has worked hard to distance himself from one of the country's wealthiest and most controversial oligarchs, Ihor Kolomoyskiy. But a humble brag by a lawyer working for both men could dent that effort.
The president-elect will take the reins of a country that requires reforms and is ensnared in a war with Russia-backed separatists. But for a day, at least, Volodymyr Zelenskiy's victory is about Ukrainian optimism.
A handful of quirky episodes marked a life-imitates-art election day for Ukraine and its likely president-elect, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Television comic and political newcomer Volodymyr Zelenskiy appears headed for a landslide victory over incumbent President Petro Poroshenko in a strong rebuke of establishment politics amid a struggling economy and war in the country's east.
In the end, the two candidates squared off on the same stage, not from opposite ends of a stadium. But it looked and sounded less like a debate than a name-calling match that lacked substantive discussion -- and may not have done much to sway voters.
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