Foreign Electoral District of Ukraine: the Prospect of Campaigning Abroad 

About 20 candidates are running for the position of a city mayor of Kyiv, both self-nominated, and party-promoted. In addition to advertisements in the streets and leaflets in mail boxes, most of them were trying to win voters’ support through campaigning in social media, such as Facebook. According to OPORA monitoring, Kyiv candidates are most active in this social media: they share campaigning materials from their own pages, from party pages, and from anonymous profiles alike. In this artic...

On September 20, a number of national TV channels aired an event held by the Kyiv city cell of the Servant of the People political party, which took place at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and was presented to the media as a candidate nomination conference. However, one more event with the same name took place on the same day, but some time earlier and at a different address. OPORA is trying to determine which of them involved the nomination of candidates, and what are the ...