{"id":38228,"date":"2019-03-31T21:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38228"},"modified":"2019-03-31T21:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T21:23:08","slug":"who-will-be-ukraines-next-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38228","title":{"rendered":"Who will be Ukraine&#8217;s next president?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"80.8115942029\">\n<p>It&#8217;s been a challenging five years since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/ukraine.html\">Ukraine<\/a>&#8216;s revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Petro Poroshenko took over as leader, promising to fight corruption and stand strong after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/russia.html\">Russia<\/a> annexed Crimea in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But with a struggling economy and a war against separatists in the east of the country, Poroshenko is facing a battle to hold on to the job.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of 39 candidates in the first round of Sunday&#8217;s presidential election, along with former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.<\/p>\n<p>But the frontrunner appears to be Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian with no experience in politics, except for playing the president in a hit TV show.<\/p>\n<p>So who will Ukrainians choose?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Divya Gopalan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Olexiy Haran &#8211; professor of comparative politics at Kiev Mohyla Academy<\/p>\n<p>Dmitry Babich &#8211; political analyst at Rossiya Segodnya news agency<\/p>\n<p>Lilit Gevorgyan &#8211; Russia and eastern Europe analyst at IHS Markit<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a challenging five years since Ukraine&#8217;s revolution. Petro Poroshenko took over as leader, promising to fight corruption and stand strong after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. But with a struggling economy and a war against separatists in the east of the country, Poroshenko is facing a battle to hold on to the job.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}