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New Podcast! “Volodymyr Zelensky: Year One” with Lipman, Kudelia, and Kasianov

(PONARS Eurasia Podcast) In April 2019, political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected the new President of Ukraine in a landslide victory. When Zelensky took over the presidency, he was faced by…

Veto on Peace/Veto on War: President Zelensky’s Donbas Imbroglio

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The sweeping victory of President Volodymyr Zelensky, who ran on the promise of peace, heightened public expectations about a swift end to the armed conflict in Donbas.…

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Will Ukraine’s Fractured Electorate Create Another Power Turnover?

(PONARS Eurasia) The first round of the presidential election in Ukraine on March 31 produced two frontrunners who will face each other in the run-off on April 21: challenger Volodymyr Zelensky (30.24…

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Kudelia: Young people who vote for Zelenskiy are not particularly responsive to the social promises Tymoshenko is known for

(Al Jazeera) Dnipro, Ukraine – On Sunday evening, outside a polling station in Dnipro, the fourth-largest city inUkraine, pensioner Alexey Krut shared his opinion of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and Dnipro…

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Kudelia: Ukrainian voters are saying: let us live in a free society without the state imposing on us

(CGTN America/Video Interview) Voters in Ukraine went to the polls Sunday to narrow a field of 39 presidential candidates down to two. If the preliminary results hold, Incumbent President Petro Poroshenko…

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Finding the balance: Should Ukraine change its system of government?

(VOX Ukraine) Political scientists answer the fundamental question of whether Ukraine should change its system of government and shift the balance of power between the executive and the legislature. Over the past…

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Martial Law and Presidential Powers in Ukraine

(Presidential Power) Since November 28, 2018 ten oblasts (provinces) in Ukraine have been operating under the provisions of the ‘martial law.’ President Petro Poroshenko introduced it in response to violent seizure…

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Ukraine’s Emerging Security State (Kudelia); Stalled Social Mobility in Russia (Gerber)

Ukraine’s Emerging Security State by Sergiy Kudelia “This article reviews President Poroshenko’s first term in office and argues that he failed in his attempt to balance the imperatives of power consolidation…

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Extrajudicial Violence in Donbas and Its Consequences for Ukraine

(PONARS Policy Memo) On May 7, 2015, three servicemen of the Ukrainian armed forces went on a mission to find separatist collaborators in Sartana, a small town in the Donetsk region. They…

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Why are Russians protesting? Eight PONARS Eurasia experts explain

(Monkey Cage blog) Joshua Tucker asked eight PONARS Eurasia experts on Russian politics: Do the protests that took place across 99 cities in Russia on Sunday signify that meaningful change in Russian politics is likely?…

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