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What did Kyiv's new electoral code change?
Summary
A look back at the Verkhovna Rada's adoption of a new Electoral Code in July 2019, alongside a separate regional development.
What was on the political agenda in the region around 15 July 2019? Reports from the preceding days point to two developments, one domestic and one international.
On 11 July 2019, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a new Electoral Code. The reports available from that period record the adoption itself, and nothing further about its provisions or its fate can be stated from them.
A day later, on 12 July 2019, Turkey received its first shipment of the S-400 missile system from Russia. The delivery went ahead despite calls from the United States and NATO to cancel the deal.
The two events were unconnected in the reports from the time. Together they show a region where a legislature was rewriting the rules for elections while a neighbouring state's arms purchase from Russia was drawing objections from its allies.
