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Ukraine's Education Ministry is introducing changes to the enrolment conditions for postgraduate studies to fight draft evasion, Education Minister Oksen Lisovyi said on June 24. Full-time male students of universities and vocational schools cannot be called up for military service during martial law, according to Ukrainian law. Graduate and doctoral students cannot be called up as well. In 2022, more than 15,000 people enrolled in graduate school, including 9,700 men over the age of 25. In 2023, the number increased to 18,800 applicants, including 13,500 men over the age of 25, Ukrainska Prav...
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Trust among Ukrainians in President Volodymyr Zelensky has been decreasing since May 2022, but most respondents still trust the head of state, according to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) published on June 7. Sociologists interviewed 1,002 respondents, aged 18 and older, from all Ukrainian oblasts that are not under Russian occupation. Some 59% of the respondents trust Zelensky, in contrast to 36% who do not as of May 2024, the survey says. When Zelensky came to power after the 2019 presidential and parliamentary elections, 80% of Ukrainians trusted him, but th...
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Around 50% of Ukrainians think President Volodymyr Zelensky has failed to fulfill all or most of his pre-election promises, according to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) published on June 5. Sociologists interviewed 1,002 respondents from all Ukrainian oblasts that are not under Russian occupation. The participants of the survey were asked to what extent Zelensky has fulfilled his pre-election promises during his five years in office. Nearly 18% of the respondents think the president fulfilled most or all of his promises, with 5% saying he had fulfilled all of t...
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Around 43% of Ukrainians think that the state of democracy worsened during the five-year tenure of President Volodymyr Zelensky, with 11% linking it to circumstances of wartime and 28% blaming the authorities, according to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) published on June 4. Some 3% of those who think the situation deteriorated blamed both the war and the authorities. About 19% of respondents think that the state of democracy has improved over the past five years, while 29% see no change. The results of the survey stand in contrast to observations by Freedom Ho...
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Foreigners will have to pass two exams — on Ukraine's Constitution and Ukraine's history — to obtain Ukrainian citizenship, the government announced on May 30. Beyond foreigners, the decision also applies to stateless persons, as well as those individuals who have obtained Ukrainian citizenship before – the latter can take the exam within two years. The exams will consist of 20 questions on the fundamentals of Ukraine's Constitution and 25 questions on Ukraine's history, respectively. A number of orders and regulations are yet to be adopted and implemented before exams start taking place, acco...
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