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...Brian Mefford, a US political consultant based in Kiev, said Mr Poroshenko could recover before election day....
...Mr Mefford sees a very tight second round runoff between Mr Poroshenko and Ms Tymoshenko as the most likely scenario, with no candidate likely to muster the 50 per cent needed to carry a first-round vote...
...“With Tymoshenko fading in polls, it is becoming a two-person race between Poroshenko and Zelensky,” said Brian Mefford, a US political consultant working in Ukraine....
...Kiev-based US political consultant Brian Mefford, founder of Wooden Horse Strategies, said the “big question” is how a Trump victory will affect current sanctions imposed upon Russia....
...Despite his reputation as a “dark prince”, Mr Manafort deserved credit “for softening the rough edges of Yanukovich and consolidating [Ukraine’s] pro-Russia vote”, Mr Mefford said....
...“It’s going to produce a very democratic dispersion of power with no national mandates,” said Brian Mefford, an American political consultant working in Ukraine....
...completely new faces, marking the first positive breakthrough of civil society which is playing an increasingly positive role in Ukrainian politics as an independent check and balance on the system,” said Brian Mefford...
...Brian Mefford is a political consultant who has lived and worked in Kiev since 1999....
...“After making their attacks and counter-attacks, both sides are now locked in a trench war-style stalemate,” said Brian Mefford, an American political consultant who has advised former president Viktor Yushchenko...
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