News archive on the topic "opposition bloc"

Former representatives of Viktor Yanukovych’s team, engaged in internecine squabbles, cannot only lay claim to leading positions in the elections for the new President of Ukraine; it also seems that the hypothetical plan for an autumn march to the new Verkhovna Rada “in several columns” is also collapsing. This is evidenced by the results of a survey released today in Kyiv by the Ukrainian Institute of Social Research named after Alexander Yaremenko and the Center...

The parliamentary elections that took place last weekend in neighboring Moldova are of interest not only to those who closely follow the ups and downs of political life in this fragment of the former Union. The results of these elections, as well as the political technology background that accompanied them, are of direct interest to Ukrainians. In any case, that rather large part of them that is still rushing between illusory hopes of returning everything...

Something has definitely died in the Ukrainian forest. For the first time since 2014, former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov appeared on Ukrainian big TV. With a detailed, although sometimes drawn-out, interview. For those who didn’t watch, or watched in fragments and didn’t get through the hour and a half of Nikolai Yanovich on the screen, first a brief retelling of the content. So. In all the bad things that happened to the country in five...

There are figures in Ukrainian politics who have downright sacred status. A sort of sacred cows or sacred monsters, as Eddie Limonov would say. On the stage, where the clowns spin and twirl, they are not there. But by default, their presence is assumed behind the scenes and behind the scenes. These shadow generals and gray cardinals seem to decide everything that you are too lazy to do...

We continue our conversation about presidential candidates in Ukraine. Today the focus is on Alexander Vilkul. Moreover, it just so happened that the day before it was he who was promoted to the highest post in the country. The party brand “Akhmetov’s group”, which inherited the party brand “Akhmetov’s group” after the split of the Opposition Bloc, at first glance looks preferable to the Firtash-Boiko-Levochkin group. There are fewer hardened political manipulators and intriguers, and more of those who...

Yuriy Boyko recently registered as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine. For those who are in the tank, I’ll tell you right away who he is: the ex-Deputy Prime Minister for Energy during the Yanukovych era, the ex-top manager of Rosukrenergo, a scandalous company that saw through shadow gas financial flows between Ukrainian and Russian businessmen. The ex-head of the Opposition Bloc, finally. And now - a “single candidate from the South-East” in the upcoming elections. So, welcome. Boyko came forward pathetically.…

On December 25, Russian Prime Minister Medvedev signed a document expanding the list of individuals and legal entities in Ukraine subject to sanctions. The armchair army, with assets the size of a laptop bought by their parents, began to giggle over the documents, and the most “advanced” politicians from the cohort of alternatively gifted ones began to babble animatedly: “to be included in Russia’s sanctions list is an honor for a Ukrainian.” Honor or no honor, but for...

Donbass is not Ukraine, belonging to it only on paper, Russian political scientist Sergei Markov said on the liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “Donbass is not Ukraine. This is a fact - not Ukraine. Legally it is Ukraine, but in fact it is not,” Markov said. “Understand that there is no legitimate government in Ukraine. There is a group of war criminals, foreign agents, which is carrying out a policy of state terror against the population...

The inclusion of many members of the “Opposition Bloc” in Russia’s expanded sanctions list, announced yesterday, is indeed due to the fact that they deliberately followed the lead of the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who collaborates with Petro Poroshenko, and refused to support the project of a single candidate from the South-East. Kiev political scientist Mikhail Pogrebinsky writes about this on his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I also don’t like it when...

The Russian government today published additions to the sanctions list against unfriendly politicians and economic structures of Ukraine. The main innovation is the appearance in the list of former associates of Viktor Yanukovych, who are today present in the Verkhovna Rada under the guise of “Opposition Bloc.” This gave rise to new mutual accusations in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Representatives of the Opposition Bloc group, focusing on the oligarch, were included in the Russian sanctions list...

One of the sponsors of the Opposition Bloc, former head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Sergei Lyovochkin, was unable to come to an agreement with another co-owner of the Opposition Bloc, oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, and therefore split the bloc and was forced to unite with Vadim Rabinovich and his party “For Life.” The fugitive oligarch, ex-governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region Igor Kolomoisky stated this in an interview with journalist Dmitry Gordon, reports...

The project “Opposition Platform - For Life”, created by Viktor Medvedchuk, Vadim Rabinovich and Yuri Boyko, has too many competitors in the southeast. Kiev journalist Anton Podlutsky said this on air on the UkrLife Internet channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. According to him, after the split of the “Opposition Bloc” and the nomination of Rada deputy Alexander Vilkul for president, the so-called opposition to...

Verkhovna Rada deputy millionaire Vadim Novinsky from the Opposition Bloc, in the recent past a citizen of Russia, today spoke in Ukrainian for the first time at a meeting of the conciliation council in parliament. Novinsky read out a statement criticizing the so-called organized by Petro Poroshenko. “unification council” of Ukrainian schismatics under the leadership of Istanbul, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The PR campaign called “unification council” has become an element of the election campaign...

The ratings of the “Opposition Bloc” have catastrophically fallen to 1% - the group of ex-“regionals” oriented towards the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov can now no longer qualify for entry into the Verkhovna Rada. Such sensational results were recently published by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology. The reason was a) the open play of the oligarch and his deputies for the interests of Poroshenko; b) the exit of the Boyko-Levochkin tandem from the Opposition Bloc and their infusion...