They may have grandchildren and occasionally garden. But Kyiv’s Ageless Shooters also have a devastating ability to play CounterStrike: Global Offensive. And these Ukrainian seniors, filmed before Ukraine's COVID-19 lockdown, are not going to let stereotypes about the elderly get in their way.
In corruption-plagued Ukraine, it’s known as “sowing buckwheat” – handing out presents, from buckwheat to bottle openers, to secure voter support. To remind Ukrainians ahead of this year’s parliamentary vote that “buckwheat” comes with a heavy price – the loss of a say in government -- the election watchdog Chesno (Fairly) and Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper set up a Museum of Election Trash at Kyiv’s National Museum of the History of Ukraine. The exhibits showcase campaign handouts since 1991.
With no place for former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko in Ukraine's presidential-elections runoff, one family of avid Timoshenko supporters in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson discussed with Current Time who will get their vote instead.
It's a question that interests many on the eve of Ukraine's April 21 presidential-election runoff: Will supporters of Yulia Timoshenko, who finished third in the polls, switch their allegiances to Acting President Petro Poroshenko or anti-status-quo candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy? Current Time spoke with one family in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson to find out.
