Sonya Koshkina

LB.ua editor in chief

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  • Three men in a boat and Akhmetov overboard
    Sonya Koshkina
    A plot devised by a part of the Opposition Bloc and the president's entourage seeks to pitch Poroshenko against Boyko in the runoff. Akhmetov seems to be left out in the cold.
  • The season's premieres
    Sonya Koshkina
    The turbulence of a new political season is multiplied by the coming presidential and parliamentary elections. What is brewing in the president's camp?
  • Tilted horizon
    Sonya Koshkina
    What option will the president choose: early elections or constitutional reform?
  • Wedding in Malinovka
    Sonya Koshkina
    The "three whales" of Petro Poroshenko's re-election campaign. Who is in charge and is it going to work out?
  • Managing the fall
    Sonya Koshkina
    The agenda of a new political season will be heavily dominated by the looming presidential and parliamentary elections, and Petro Poroshenko's ambitions in this regard.
  • Roofer Mikho, or Putin's useful idiots
    Sonya Koshkina
    Selective justice is unacceptable but allegations against Saakashvili are too serious to be brushed off with populist slogans. 
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  • Living a new life
    Sonya Koshkina
    Security measures had to be taken after Sonya Koshkina started receiving life threats.
  • A swansong
    Sonya Koshkina
    No positive expectations are associated with Saakashvili's return to Ukraine. Did his team have a plan? And what lesson should Ukraine learn from his story?
  • Running in place
    Sonya Koshkina
    Despite the absence of breakthroughs at the start of a new political season, some processes are already underway which may determine the outcome of the 2019 elections.
  • Saakashvili. Under-dictatorship. Ellipsis
    Sonya Koshkina
    Flagrant disrespect for the constitution like an attempt to strip Saakashvili of Ukrainian citizenship cannot be left unnoticed. But running to extremes is not an option.
  • Post Scriptum. Vengeance
    Sonya Koshkina
    Ukraine's leaders seem to have finally come to realise that vengeance must be taken on those responsible for the deaths on Maydan and other grave crimes of the Yanukovych clique. Otherwise, the tables can be turned on them.
  • Post Scriptum. Israel’s lessons. And more
    Sonya Koshkina
    Sonya Koshkina suggests Ukraine may learn from Israel’s early years and possibly master a more assertive stance.
  • Post Scriptum. Cop wars
    Sonya Koshkina
    Sonya Koshkina is looking at infighting between law-enforcement agencies and ways to turn it into a healthy competition.
  • In the name of the second term: constitution – change not leave
    Sonya Koshkina
    Petro Poroshenko is going to run for office again in 2019. The main question is how to ensure the result? Bankova is considering options. One of them is to amend the constitution by restricting the president's powers.
  • Post Scriptum. The wall
    Sonya Koshkina
    The authorities are getting increasingly more indifferent of true reforms, thus building a wall between them and civil society, Sonya Koshkina says.