A closely contested vote of no confidence failed to oust Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk from his post yesterday, the latest in a series of high-stakes gyrations that have brought Ukraine’s governing coalition within a hair of collapse.Though the governing coalition has always been a fraught enterprise, making uneasy allies of Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front and President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc, the precipitating factor in this latest crisis was not internal tensions. Rather it was the resignation of the technocrat reformist economy minister Aivaras Abromavicius two weeks ago. As he left his post, he made a point of pointing his finger directly at …read more
Source: The American Interest
