Christopher Miller is a correspondent based in Kyiv who covers the former Soviet republics.
Ukraine’s two leading presidential contenders clashed in an epic stadium debate before tens of thousands of cheering supporters, hammering one another on everything from the economy and rampant corruption to the festering war against Russia-backed separatists in the country's east.
A Washington lobbying firm has told RFE/RL that it has been hired by Ukrainian comedian and presidential front-runner Volodymyr Zelenskiy to burnish his international image and set up meetings between members of his camp and officials in the U.S. capital.
President Petro Poroshenko is attempting to reinvent himself and his campaign after a distant second-place finish in the first round of Ukraine's presidential election.
Facebook tells RFE/RL that it has officially banned the far-right Azov movement from its platform. But the company's lax enforcement means pages belonging to the group keep popping up and its leaders are still there as well.
The comic and front-runner phoned in to the Right To Power TV program last night to continue his ongoing argument with the incumbent president over where and when a debate would take place. It didn't end well.
Ahead of a runoff against a rising political force, incumbent President Petro Poroshenko is drawing stark contrasts and pleading for another crack at reforms. Challenger Volodymyr Zelenskiy is calling on Ukrainians to get together to leave the "old era" behind.
Coming off a first-round election victory, first-time candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been vague about what he stands for. But a blank canvas might not be enough, even for voters frustrated by incumbent President Petro Poroshenko's failings.
Just President Petro Poroshenko and challenger Volodymyr Zelenskiy wading through a media scrum to get drug tested. For a debate.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy and incumbent Petro Poroshenko have egged each other on since they advanced to a presidential runoff. But in upping the stakes to an Olympic-sized event, they both may have bitten off more than the country can chew.
Petro Poroshenko is trying to burnish his image as commander in chief to boost his reelection chances in a presidential runoff. But when it comes to the troops, is their wish really his command?
The predicted winners of the first round of Ukraine's presidential election came out swinging at their election-night parties in the capital on March 31, looking to land political body blows as focus shifted from dozens of contenders to just two.
His canary-yellow-and-black lanyard identifies Yuriy Petrenko as a member of a paramilitary force with a penchant for urban camouflage, facemasks, and violence to advance an ultranationalist agenda. But today, he says, he's safeguarding democracy.
Some of the signposts to watch for when Ukrainians go to the polls on March 31 to pick a president or, more likely, at least narrow their choices.
Ukrainian journalists report that comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a political novice whose TV image as an everyman has him leading all polls going into this weekend's presidential election, has a 15-room villa in Italy that he failed to disclose in his public asset declaration.
The election campaign of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accuses longtime foe Ihor Kolomoyskiy of seeking revenge for the nationalization of a major bank.
In a letter on behalf of the rich countries' club, France warned top Ukrainian cop Arsen Avakov that "extreme political movements" are trying "to usurp the role of the National Police."
The U.S. State Department has denied an explosive claim by Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko that U.S. Ambassador to Kyiv Marie Yovanovitch gave him "a list of people whom we should not prosecute" during their first in-person meeting.
Beginning today, Facebook advertisers in Ukraine need the social network's authorization to reach users -- and ads from annexed Crimea and separatist-held areas are banned outright. But 13 days before an election, is it too little, too late?
Several hundred people have gathered in Kyiv at a protest organized by a far-right group to call for arrests of figures linked to an alleged military corruption scandal.
Corruption charges against two close allies. Accusations of vote-buying from his government. The ire of a notorious far-right paramilitary group. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's road to reelection is a rocky one.
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