I am very happy for the new leaders within Ukraine. They are young, successful with hopes of building the country they have longed for. Very exciting.
The President-Elect Petro Poroshenko has avoided a run off election by every estimation. He'll be a great president for Ukraine. I sincerely believe he will move the country forward. He has a focus on this Russian based chocolate empire while anticipating great opportunity in the European market.
President-Elect Poroshenko has the potential to bridge the gap between Ukrainians deepest wishes to have markets with neighbors on all their borders. They have high hopes for European marketing and bringing a new day to Ukraine. There is no reason to believe it won't occur.
Russia has far less to worry about than it wants to admit. I wish all parties well. It is time to move forward and bring peace to the children of Ukraine.
Leader of UDAR party and former heavyweight boxer Vitali Klitschko speaks during his press conference at Poroshenko's election headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine on 25 May 2014
KIEV (AFP) (click here) - Ukraine’s burly boxing hero and strident protest leader Vitali Klitschko claimed victory on Sunday in Kiev mayoral vote that cements his role as a statesman for the country’s post-Soviet generation.
“All change will begin in Kiev,” the former heavyweight champion declared after exit polls gave him 57 per cent of the capital city’s vote.
The two-metre-tall titan who never suffered a knockdown in his stellar heavyweight career was Ukraine’s most popular figure at the height of the protests that toppled a Russian-backed regime in February.
But the 42-year-old’s star faded once the old president fled to Russia and voters began searching for others with similar pro-Western leanings but a bit more experience in dealing with delicate diplomatic and economic affairs.
The President-Elect Petro Poroshenko has avoided a run off election by every estimation. He'll be a great president for Ukraine. I sincerely believe he will move the country forward. He has a focus on this Russian based chocolate empire while anticipating great opportunity in the European market.
President-Elect Poroshenko has the potential to bridge the gap between Ukrainians deepest wishes to have markets with neighbors on all their borders. They have high hopes for European marketing and bringing a new day to Ukraine. There is no reason to believe it won't occur.
Russia has far less to worry about than it wants to admit. I wish all parties well. It is time to move forward and bring peace to the children of Ukraine.
Leader of UDAR party and former heavyweight boxer Vitali Klitschko speaks during his press conference at Poroshenko's election headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine on 25 May 2014KIEV (AFP) (click here) - Ukraine’s burly boxing hero and strident protest leader Vitali Klitschko claimed victory on Sunday in Kiev mayoral vote that cements his role as a statesman for the country’s post-Soviet generation.
“All change will begin in Kiev,” the former heavyweight champion declared after exit polls gave him 57 per cent of the capital city’s vote.
The two-metre-tall titan who never suffered a knockdown in his stellar heavyweight career was Ukraine’s most popular figure at the height of the protests that toppled a Russian-backed regime in February.
But the 42-year-old’s star faded once the old president fled to Russia and voters began searching for others with similar pro-Western leanings but a bit more experience in dealing with delicate diplomatic and economic affairs.
KIEV
(AFP) - Ukraine’s burly boxing hero and strident protest leader Vitali
Klitschko claimed victory on Sunday in Kiev mayoral vote that cements
his role as a statesman for the country’s post-Soviet generation.
“All change will begin in Kiev,” the former heavyweight champion declared after exit polls gave him 57 per cent of the capital city’s vote.
The two-metre-tall titan who never suffered a knockdown in his stellar heavyweight career was Ukraine’s most popular figure at the height of the protests that toppled a Russian-backed regime in February.
But the 42-year-old’s star faded once the old president fled to Russia and voters began searching for others with similar pro-Western leanings but a bit more experience in dealing with delicate diplomatic and economic affairs.
- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/ukraine-boxing-hero-klitschko-claims-kiev-mayor-seat-20140526#sthash.qzAw9MPD.dpuf
“All change will begin in Kiev,” the former heavyweight champion declared after exit polls gave him 57 per cent of the capital city’s vote.
The two-metre-tall titan who never suffered a knockdown in his stellar heavyweight career was Ukraine’s most popular figure at the height of the protests that toppled a Russian-backed regime in February.
But the 42-year-old’s star faded once the old president fled to Russia and voters began searching for others with similar pro-Western leanings but a bit more experience in dealing with delicate diplomatic and economic affairs.
- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/ukraine-boxing-hero-klitschko-claims-kiev-mayor-seat-20140526#sthash.qzAw9MPD.dpuf
Leader
of UDAR party and former heavyweight boxer Vitali Klitschko speaks
during his press conference at Poroshenko's election headquarters in
Kiev, Ukraine on 25 May 2014. -- PHOTO: EPA
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