UkraineAlert by Mykola Vorobiov Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun the fall 2020 season with a series of scandals and negative headlines that reflect the increasingly grim outlook for a politician who just eighteen months ago was hailed as the face of a new Ukraine. Zelenskyy promised to end an era of corruption stretching back to the dawn of Ukrainian

By Bermet Talant. In one year, Geo Leros, once an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky and lawmaker with his party, turned into an outspoken critic who called on the president to resign. The president called him a bribe-taker and traitor. On the first day of the new parliamentary session on Sept. 1, Leros was expelled from the ruling party Servant of the

UkraineAlert by Adrian Karatnycky Recent months have seen a confounding set of appointments and personnel decisions by President Zelenskyy and his administration. If the president’s initial appointments when he first took office held the promise of fresh reform approaches, Zelenskyy’s latest picks make a mockery of his claims to represent a new era in Ukrainian politics. Notably, the president has

Under Article 105 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the President enjoys the right of immunity during his or her tenure. Kyiv’s Pechersky district court has ruled that there is no administrative violation in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s assets declaration. The ruling was issued by judge Svitlana Smyk, according to the website of the State Register of Court Rulings. The court

This year, Ukraine will no longer be able to receive the second tranche under the new program with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF) , which was expected in the fall. This opinion was expressed by the strategist of the financial company Bluebay Asset Management Timothy Ash. He noted that the independence of the NBU was the central theme of the new 5-billion stand-by

Zelensky faces a political future that is no laughing matter. by Melinda Haring Poor Volodymyr Zelensky. In April 2019, the comedian-turned-presidential candidate won Ukraine’s highest office by a nearly three to one margin before trouncing the country’s established political parties a few months later in the parliamentary elections. His new party won so many seats that Zelensky held a majority

Dear Mr. President, I am writing to you because I am very concerned about what is happening (or failing to happen?) in the country under your leadership. I want to share some thoughts about this with you because I care about Ukraine and you, too, as its hard-pressed president. I do not know you personally, and I am not your

The publication of Letters published the correspondence of people’s deputies from the Servants of the People, who discussed the resignation of the head of the National Bank, Yakov Smoly, and that, due to his departure, Ukraine canceled the placement of Eurobonds for $ 1.75 billion. A photo of the correspondence in one of the chats was made by the correspondent of the publication. “ Could