Sunday’s elections produced a new-look legislature packed with pro-Western parties, giving them a mandate to enact a program of reform.
Combating corruption has been a recurring theme in Ukrainian politics in recent months, but some worry whether rhetoric about cleaning up the justice system and police forces will be followed by action.
THE FIGHTERS
[…] recently, militia leader Semyon Semenchenko would only appear before cameras wearing a balaclava, saying he feared for the safety of his family.
Semenchenko is one of a new crop of politicians who are veterans of the volunteer battalions that emerged to fight alongside the Ukrainian army when pro-Russian rebels …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
