The president-elect will take the reins of a country that requires reforms and is ensnared in a war with Russia-backed separatists. But for a day, at least, Volodymyr Zelenskiy's victory is about Ukrainian optimism.
Outgoing Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko has been a favorite bête noire for Russian state media. His defeat prompted celebration in Moscow's TV studios and its corridors of power.
The vote tally is nearly over. Now it's time for Volodymyr Zelenskiy to size up the looming issues he will face.
Ukrainian voters saw in comedian and political novice Volodymyr Zelenskiy a chance to overhaul the ruling class, handing the newcomer an apparent landslide victory.
A handful of quirky episodes marked a life-imitates-art election day for Ukraine and its likely president-elect, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
A newly declassified 1979 memo gives intriguing details about the Ukrainian KGB's efforts to thwart a "plot by Western security agencies" to undermine the Soviet Union by importing subversive literature into the country under the framework of the 1975 Helsinki Accords.
Changing times: North Macedonia has a new name and its first female candidate in a presidential election.
In the end, the two candidates squared off on the same stage, not from opposite ends of a stadium. But it looked and sounded less like a debate than a name-calling match that lacked substantive discussion -- and may not have done much to sway voters.
When a redacted version of U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation report was issued in Washington, Moscow was ready with a mix of studied disinterest and well-practiced disdain.
The post-2001 generation make up around half of Afghanistan’s 33 million population, but their voices have been largely absent as the prospects for peace with the Taliban rise.
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