The temptation in Kyiv and elsewhere is to look past the overwhelming victory by upstart Volodymyr Zelenskiy over incumbent Petro Poroshenko and try to divine what it means for Ukraine. This piece will yield to that temptation—but after acknowledging the importance of what happened Sunday and throughout the election campaign. Free and fair elections...
Russian propagandists have thrown many slurs at Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s invasion in 2014. Especially prominent among them in the lead-up to the presidential election has been the claim that Nazi sympathizers and fascists run Ukraine. While anti-Semitism, unfortunately, still exists in Ukraine, Ukraine ranks as the least anti-Semitic country in the region. Moreover,...