On Sunday, November 15, officials at polling stations yawned while waiting for people to cast ballots for the mayor of Kyiv. The turnout in the latest local elections across the country marked a record low, indicating a widespread disappointment in politicians and politics in Ukraine. (Vitaly Klitschko, the incumbent mayor, won, with a plurality of less than 40 percent of the vote.) That disappointment is reflected in a joke making the rounds in the capital: Sociologists polled Ukrainians, asking which politicians they would like to spit at? An overwhelming majority marked the option, “Any one.”In a recent real-life poll, two-thirds …read more
Source: The American Interest
