2019 is election year in Ukraine. Ukrainians will select a new president this spring and a new parliament in the fall. Even though the outcome of the presidential race is unpredictable, there are five things about this political cycle that are not.
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(Archive photo) Members of the election commission empty a ballot box at a polling station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum, bordering Donetsk Oblast, during the last presidential election in May, 2014.