Summary of Iuliia Mendel's The Fight of Our Lives

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#1 In December 2020, Ukraine’s president was a TV actor who was in a music video from 2009. The country was dealing with a lot of controversies at the time, and he personally oversaw the communications team’s output.

#2 Ukraine is a basket case. Its politics are a mess, its economy is in shambles, and its society is splintering into two camps – those who are more pro-Western, and those who are more pro-Russian.

#3 Ukraine is a basket case. Its politics are a mess, its economy is in shambles, and its society is splintering into two camps – those who are more pro-Western and those who are more pro-Russian.

#4 Ukraine is a basket case. Its politics are a mess, its economy is in shambles, and its society is splintering into two camps – those who are more pro-Western and those who are more pro-Russian.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350029567

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was a communications director for Zelenskyy’s presidential campaign. That morning, my team and I faced a lot of challenges at the office. There was a fight going on between the Ministry of Defense and a dogged opposition journalist, and activists were in the midst of a crusade against the deputy to the presidential office, accusing him of corruption.

#2

I had warned Matthew Kaminski, an editor at Politico Europe, about the challenges of being president of Ukraine. He had spent years covering post-Soviet countries, and he said that Ukrainian politicians had no values. They were ready to promise anything if it helped them stay in power.

#3

In Ukraine, the Euromaidan protests against President Viktor Yanukovych, who was pro-Russian, began in late 2013 and evolved into the Revolution of Dignity, when millions of Ukrainians rose up against corruption and rapprochement with Russia. But progress came slowly and was barely noticeable inside the country.

#4

Ukrainian political parties had never been able to come up with a unified state ideology