Ukraine’s domestic politics will change fundamentally in 2019. On May 20, Volodymyr Zelenskiy was inaugurated as president of Ukraine. The country’s upcoming parliamentary elections this summer or autumn will likely reconfigure much of the governing elite, and lead to deep changes in the country’s legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy talks with the audience at iForum, one of the biggest annual tech conferences in Ukraine, in Kyiv on May 23, 2019.