No joke: Comedian to win first round in Ukraine's presidential election
Source: Politico
KIEV — Comedian Vladimir Zelenskiy looked set to edge out President Petro Poroshenko in the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election Sunday, setting the stage for a decisive run-off between the two in three weeks.
Zelenskiy, a political upstart who had never run for public office before, finished first with 30.4 percent of the vote, followed by Poroshenko with 17.8 percent, according to early exit polls. Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko finished third with 14.2 percent. The rest of the vote was split between some three dozen other candidates.
Poroshenko described his second place finish as a “hard lesson.” Zelenskiy told supporters he was “very happy,” but cautioned that the campaign wasn’t over.
The result presents Ukrainians with a stark second-round choice between the status quo and the unknown. Poroshenko, a billionaire business magnate elected in the wake of the 2014 Euromaidan uprising, has struggled to end the country’s war with Russian-backed separatists and to make good on the promise of reform that vaulted him to power. Though Poroshenko came from behind in recent weeks to make it to the run-off, popular discontent with his stewardship runs deep.
Read more: https://www.politico.eu/article/no-joke-comedian-vladimir-zelenskiy-to-win-first-round-in-ukraines-presidential-election-against-petro-poroshenko/
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Anti-Semitism in Europe: Ukraine turns out to be the most friendly to Jews
https://ukrainianjewishencounter.org/en/news/anti-semitism-in-europe-ukraine-turns-out-to-be-the-most-friendly-to-jews/
The antisemitism propaganda has been used by Putin consistently to undercut Ukraine and its move towards independence, democracy, and the European social market.
