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The reaction of far-right National Corps (started by Nazi-fetishizing Azov fighters) to Zelenskiy's presidential win: "Next stop nationalism!"https://twitter.com/kooleksiy/status/1120038131779211264?s=19 …
One of the main effects of all of Russia's interference in Ukraine has been to break up the pro-Russian voting bloc & make the old east-west dichotomy irrelevant. At left is the Tymoshenko-Yanukovych electoral map in 2010, at right is Poroshenko-Zelenskiy in 2019. @AlexKokcharovpic.twitter.com/BXxnAlj8Kx
After a 1st-round campaign of comedy shows, a 2nd-round campaign of Instagram videos & a debate of insults, Zelenskiy's victory speech was less than 3 minutes, mostly thank-yous. At some pt the guy's going to have to start talking policy. Not today I guesshttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/21/comedian-upsets-ukraines-president-landslide-election-victory/ …
How long until Putin congratulates Zelenskiy? He waited 25 days when pro-Western Yushchenko won in 2004 & didn't congratulate Poroshenko at all in 2014. (Pro-Russian Yanukovych received congratulations from Medvedev within 2 days.) @meduzaprojectpic.twitter.com/8XW4Qlum7H
The Kremlin is cool on Zelenskiy, saying it's too early for Putin to congratulate him on his presidential victory. It adds that the "legitimacy of these elections is in question when 3 million Ukrainians living in Russia were not allowed to vote."https://meduza.io/short/2019/04/22/kreml-nazval-prezhdevremennymi-pozdravleniya-zelenskomu-s-pobedoy-na-vyborah-tsitata …
If only we could have a slider like in Photoshop and move it up and down, then we would see a heatmap pretty close to previous. On the other hand, it doesn’t matter with numbers so convincing.
You can still see substantial difference between the regions, in the west it’s in the high 50s and 60s, it moves towards the 70s in the center and in the east it goes up to the 80s and high 80s.
Or ..Ukrainians (- hardcore far right bubble) got tired of the PostMaidan Ethnic Nationalist experiment and the disaster imposed from abroad and voted for whatever sounded better. Peace with RU sounded better. It really doesnt take a genius to see this.https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1120036608789680129 …
yh... by banning all pro-russian/neutral paties... ofc that would break up the conventional political order...
This is not true. Opposition Platform - For Life of Medvedchuk & Rabinovich is an openly pro-Russian party. Their candidate Boyko came 4th in the 1st round of the election, and did well in parts of eastern & southern Ukraine.pic.twitter.com/VWxLjtViZY
Well, if you look at the share of votes, Zelenskiy won by a significantly lower margin in the West. The Crimea-Donbass bloc is no longer so powerful, but regional differences remain.
Your knowledge of Russian politics is impressive, comrade. Supreme Leader Putin has taken notice! Spacibo!
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