Sonya Koshkina

LB.ua editor in chief

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  • Post Scriptum. Visa-free travel: late flowers
    Sonya Koshkina
    In its anticipation of 6 April, Bankova seriously expects visa liberalization to become its main election trump card. As if visa-free travel, which is, of course, an important and good thing, can be an excuse for the rest.
  • Post Scriptum: Those who stand in the way
    Sonya Koshkina
    Do you remember why Putin's Russia desperately started "tightening the screws"? When did a red carpet for the dictatorship first appear? You are right, it started with the adoption…
  • Black swan. Second take
    Sonya Koshkina
    The detention of Roman Nasirov, suspended chief of the State Fiscal Service, can become the Rubicon for the authorities. Why did it happen at all, and will they learn the lesson and grow sensitive to public sentiments? 
  • Brain blockade
    Sonya Koshkina
    Is a "new era of Groysman" possible? It depends on whether the prime minister can groups MPs around so that in April they ensure a year-long immunity for him. Will Bankova let this happen? 
  • Conservation
    Sonya Koshkina
    Amid a noisy public discussion on a probability of early elections, President Petro Poroshenko is consistently building up his power. He is quite close to the absolute, all he has to do is to finally sideline the People's Front and "clip the…
  • Ukraine's fiscal chief backs embattled Transcarpathian customs head The State Fiscal Service (SFS) is holding an internal investigation into the head of the Transcarpathian customs, Volodymyr Kolesnikov, on suspicion of violations of customs legislation…
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  • Ukraine's State Fiscal Service (SFS) intends to carry out a detailed analysis of the electronic declarations of income and assets filed by civil servants, the SFS head Roman Nasirov…
  • Take-off or landing?
    Sonya Koshkina
    Constitutional reform as far as the judiciary is concerned Effective from 30 September. Among other things, the reform kicks off the formation of the Supreme Court (during six months…
  • Poroshenko's new agenda
    Sonya Koshkina , Igor Solovey
    Ukraine is preparing for a change in the foreign political environment of our country.
  • High hopes
    Sonya Koshkina
    Ukraine has seen a lot of parties of "simply good people". And nothing solid has grown out of it. UDAR, the People's Front, Self-Reliance, Ukrop, to a lesser extent the Radical Party and Freedom, and others. All of them stood "for everything…
  • Donbas on hold
    Sonya Koshkina
    Ukraine has already taken the path of constitutional changes aimed at ensuring that Donbas has if not a "special", then clearly different status compared with other regions. The only question is when and in what format it is going to complete…
  • And the wind returns
    Sonya Koshkina
    The pilot's comeback gave people hope. The one they are deprived of by any authorities once they stop being "new". The hope for better life, social justice, welfare and bright future. Overall, this hope is infantile and irresponsible as the…
  • Sic transit gloria mundi
    Sonya Koshkina
    "Its" means the one who is equally controllable and giving Bankova [street, where the Ukrainian president's office is located] all existing levers of power (uniformed agencies including…
  • Kamikaze on a string
    Sonya Koshkina
    A banal stereotype born in the first hours after the Tuesday performance – that what happened was President Poroshenko's great victory as he fooled everyone around – was crumbling…