The inaugural speech of Ukraine’s new president, Petro Poroshenko, can be read in its entirety in English translation here.
Poroshenko’s inaugural speech
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Bojcun: Poroshenko’s sticky wicket
27 05 2014In “The Chocolate King Walks Onto a Sticky Wicket,” left-wing Ukraine analyst Marko Bojcun provides an excellent overview of the prospects facing post-presidential election Ukraine: deteriorating socio-economic conditions, a fragile state, chaos in the eastern provinces, and so on.
The article is well worth reading.
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On the presidential election
27 05 2014
Every serious newspaper in the world announced something yesterday about the winner of Sunday’s Ukrainian presidential election, Petro Poroshenko.
Canadian journalist (and Liberal Party politician) Chrystia Freeland’s piece in the center-left Toronto Star encompassed more of the meaning of the election for Ukrainians than most other reports. Read the rest of this entry »
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