EPISODE · Mar 21, 2019 · 30 MIN
What Ukraine's Election Reveals, Five Years after Crimea - March 20, 2019
from Deep Dish on Global Affairs · host Brian Hanson, Steven Pifer, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Comic actor Volodymyr Zelensky, who has no political experience but has played the Ukrainian president on TV, is leading in the polls ahead of Ukraine's presidential election on March 31. Last weekend marked five years since Russia annexed Crimea, and fighting in eastern Ukraine, which has killed thousands, continues. Steven Pifer, former US ambassador to Ukraine, joins Deep Dish to explain what's going on.
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What Ukraine's Election Reveals, Five Years after Crimea - March 20, 2019
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