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Year in Review: Top 6 events in Ukraine in 2019

Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky was elected president. His party took control of parliament in a landslide. There were high-level diplomatic meetings, prisoner swaps, military actions and more. The Kyiv Post outlines the top six events of the year according to a survey by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Razumkov Center.

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