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This is the eighth Ukraine Reform Monitor published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Ukraine has little more than a year to go before the presidential contest, expected in March 2019, and a parliamentary vote due to be held later the same year.

“As many already said, certainly, this was the most transparent and clean election in the history of our country.

“For years, European security was based on measures of restraint. There never was a military aspect in our relations with neighbors, who have now taken the most radical stance towards Russia - the Baltic states, for instance.

Facebook, expanding its response to people using the platform improperly, said Tuesday that it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a "troll factory" indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

Last week, Russian TV continued to present more theories and accusations in relation to the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English town of Salisbury.

“Senior Pentagon Russia Analyst LTC David Jewberg” maintained a popular Facebook page and was frequently quoted in Ukrainian and Russian media as a Pentagon insider related to topics concerning Ukraine and Russia.

“The provider company that aired our broadcasts in Washington, D.C., kicked us off the broadcasting network. Yes, because of our status as a ‘foreign agent’.

US preparing new colored revolution in Ukraine; Ukraine wants a new friendship treaty with Russia; Ukrainian blood for sale. https://youtu.be/i5a1Z3winaU

Scores of Russian media reported this week that Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service detained a fishing vessel anchored in a Russian port in Russian territorial waters.

Scores of official Russian media disseminated stories this week claiming that Kyiv had admitted Ukrainian components are present in North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile engines.