Contents tagged with CEC

  • Front-runner in Ukraine’s election race names condition for returning Crimea

    The front-runner in the election race in Ukraine, showman and politician, Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking about his views on the Crimea and Donbas issue in an interview with the ICTV channel, announced that he considers a change of power in Moscow to be the only condition for returning the Crimea to Kyiv's control.

    “Crimea will return only when power changes in Russia. There is no other choice, “said Zelensky.

    Speaking about the status of Donbas, Zelensky stressed that he does not believe in the …

  • Ukraine refuses to register Russian observers for Presidential Elections

    The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry will not accept applications for registration of Russian observers for the Ukrainian Presidential Elections, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin wrote on Facebook. 

    Klimkin said that several days ago, he wrote a letter to Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). He invited the monitoring mission for the Ukrainian Presidential elections. 

    “Among other standard things I pointed out that …

  • The third candidate for the Presidency of Ukraine submits documents to the Central Election Commission

    On January 3, People’s Deputy from the Petro Poroshenko Block Serhiy Kaplin filed documents to the Central Election Commission (CEC) for potential candidacy in the presidential election, the press service of the CEC reported.

    The documents were filed by the Deputy at 10:30 a.m. The CEC clarified that Kaplin is not yet a presidential candidate since this status will be assigned to him after the commission meets to review his application.

    Presidential election campaigns were launched on …