Poroshenko
Proper noun
Meaning
Poroshenko
A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Порошенко (Porošenko).
Examples
At Zelenskyi’s first major press conference in 2019, journalists asked the new president when he would sign a decree to abolish the court – or whether, like his predecessor Poroshenko, Zelenskyi also needed a “convenient” court.
President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government included an attempted quid-pro-quo with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, according to Lev Parnas, the indicted businessman who is a in the impeachment scandal.
The leaked conversation, purportedly between Biden and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, dates from Feb. 18, 2016.
According to WSJ, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and top European Union officials reached a tentative deal on Wednesday on Kiev’s bid to win visa-free access to the bloc, opening the way for Brussels to back the step, EU officials said.
Both groups accused Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk of staging the no-confidence vote spectacle to preserve the status quo and deflect blame for corruption, which polls show the public holds them responsible for.
During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili met today with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.