Tag Archives: Ukraine

– UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called for the cancellation of planned elections in southeastern Ukraine, his press service said. “The Secretary-General deplores the planned holding by armed rebel groups in eastern Ukraine of their own ‘elections’ on ...

 Ukrainians are set to vote in early parliamentary elections on Sunday, October 26.  Under the Ukrainian Constitution, the parliament, called the Verkhovna Rada, is the main one chamber, sole legislative authority in Ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada comprises 450 members of ...

The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (or UDAR, this means punch in English) is really a center-right pro-European political party in Ukraine led by professional heavyweight boxer and current mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko. The party was formed in April ...

  Ukraine’s People’s Front Party was founded in September 2014 by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament (the Verkhovna Rada), Oleksandr Turchynov, who both left the Batkivshchyna Party as a result of disagreements among its ...