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What Ukraine's Election Reveals, Five Years after Crimea - March 20, 2019
Deep Dish on Global Affairs
English - March 21, 2019 11:18 - 30 minutes - 45.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsPolitics News Government globalaffairs Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.