Presidential election
- One of the last polls to be published before the March 31 presidential election came out on March 27. Showman Volodymyr Zelenskiy keeps leading the race but the gap between him and President Petro Poroshenko gets smaller.
- Speaking of the election, here are all 39 candidates in the race and key facts about them. And here’s a detailed FAQ about the election.
- Oleksandr Moroz, a veteran Ukrainian politician and two-time speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, has withdrawn his candidacy for president of Ukraine. He said he did it because he thought the election would be rigged and called the campaign a “farce.”
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Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko is taking television station 1+1 to court for alleged libel. The station, owned by oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, has aired a series of reports alleging that the president paid for parliamentary votes, made substantial profits from Russian business interests, and may have been involved in the death of his own brother in 1997.
In other news
- Russian authorities crack down on Crimean Tatars. Russia’s FSB security agency conducted simultaneous searches of at least 25 houses belonging to Crimean Tatars on March 27, according to multiple reports of journalists, human rights advocates, and activists in Russian-occupied Crimea.
- New details surfaced in the case of activist Kateryna Gandziuk, who was murdered in 2018, that suggest top officials’ possible involvement in the assault.
- Ukraine will not follow the U.S. in recognizing Golan Heights as Israeli territory.
- The Danish government refused to allow companies building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territorial waters, a move that could delay but not kill the project.
- Kyiv Court of Appeal closed the case against ex-lawmaker Yevhen Sihal and his wife, who were accused of violating environmental safety regulations through their poultry company.
- Ukraine’s largest agricultural holding Myronivsky Hliboproduct, or MHP, fired its chief agronomist Oleksiy Serhienko accusing him of $116,000 in financial fraud detected by the company’s security service during a tender last year for pesticides and fertilizers.
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