Tag: Legislatures and Parliaments

A Wartime Election in Ukraine? It’s a Political Hot Potato.

It might seem like a huge distraction at the height of a full-scale war, not to mention a logistical nightmare: holding a presidential election as Russian missiles fly into the Ukrainian capital and artillery assaults reduce whole towns to ruins. But President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has not ruled it out. His five-year term ends […]

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Slovakia Appears Set to Join the Putin Sympathizers After Election

The victory of Robert Fico, a former prime minister who took a pro-Russian campaign stance, in Slovakia’s parliamentary elections is a further sign of eroding support for Ukraine in the West as the war drags on and the front line remains largely static. Slovakia is a small country with historical Russian sympathies, and the nature […]

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Canada’s Speaker Apologizes After Ukrainian Who Fought for Nazis Was Honored

The Ukrainian man sitting in the gallery of Canada’s House of Commons was a “hero,” the speaker of the House said on Friday, drawing applause from lawmakers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who had just addressed the chamber during his first visit to Ottawa since Russia invaded his country. But […]

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Giorgio Napolitano, Italian Post-Communist Pillar, Dies at 98

Giorgio Napolitano, modern Italy’s longest-serving president, who orchestrated the transfer of power from a scandal-scarred Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to a little-known economist in a 2011 debt crisis and turned his nation back from the brink of collapse, died on Friday in Rome. He was 98. His death, in a clinic, was announced by Italy’s […]

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Marine Le Pen May Face Trial on Embezzlement Charges in France

After a seven-year investigation, the Paris prosecutor’s office requested on Friday that Marine Le Pen, the far-right leader, and more than 20 other members of her National Rally party stand trial for embezzlement of funds from the European Parliament between 2004 and 2016. The case has centered on whether party members who were representatives in […]

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