Abstract. On July 21, 2019 snap parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine. The elections were won by the pro-presidential liberal populist party “Servant of the People”, which got 43.2% of votes and won 254 seats in Verkhovnaya Rada. Thus the party supporting President Zelensky won a majority in the Ukrainian parliament, which enabled it to form a government. The second place was taken by moderately pro-Russian party “Opposition Platform – For Life”, which got 13% of votes. Three pro-Western and nationalist parties – “Bat’kivshchyna” (“Fatherland”), “European Solidarity” and “Voice” – also entered the parliament. However, unlike the Verkhovnaya Rada elected in 2014, factions of pro-Western and nationalist parties comprise parliamentary minority in the present Rada. It gives hope for some improvement in Russian-Ukrainian relations.