Actor wins Ukraine election
Actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy has won the Ukrainian elections, beating the incumbent president Petro Poroshenko 73.2 to 25.3 per cent.
The official returns have not been released. These results come from exit polls. However, Poroshenko has already conceded defeat.
What happens next will be most interesting. We shall find out if Zelenskiy is the reformer he claims to be.
This article, describing a sense of frustration in Russia and Belarus because such a free election could not happen in their countries, suggests the peaceful transition of rule in Ukraine could have ramifications in its neighboring countries.
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Actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy has won the Ukrainian elections, beating the incumbent president Petro Poroshenko 73.2 to 25.3 per cent.
The official returns have not been released. These results come from exit polls. However, Poroshenko has already conceded defeat.
What happens next will be most interesting. We shall find out if Zelenskiy is the reformer he claims to be.
This article, describing a sense of frustration in Russia and Belarus because such a free election could not happen in their countries, suggests the peaceful transition of rule in Ukraine could have ramifications in its neighboring countries.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I do not know the policies in the Ukraine and hope the winner is of the conservative mindset: Limited government and fiscal responsibility and anti-corruption. The latter is a bit of a pipedream, I know.
The recent Alberta election put a conservative in power by close to 2/3 majority, bumping out the far left, which, when policies are looked at, looked like the current trifecta in New Mexico. This win now puts Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta stuanchly opposed to the far left agenda of the Trudeau government in Ottawa.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5147827/alberta-election-live-results/
Can a similar thing happen in the USA? I am hopefull. However, due to the tactics of the dems, a free election is going to be hard to come by IMHO.
I should add this link on the Alberta election:
https://www.therebel.media/notley-hired-ndp-foreign-funded-anti-oil-activists-in-alberta
https://www.timesofisrael.com/zelensky-win-makes-ukraine-1st-country-outside-israel-with-jewish-pm-president/