A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, October 25, 2015. Photo: AP MARIUPOL: Ukrainians are voting in local elections that are seen as a test of the strength of President Petro Poroshenko’s government and of the oligarchs accustomed to running regions of the country. The situation in Mariupol, a major port and steel city, is especially fraught. The city is torn by disputes over the influence of Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man whose industrial holdings are key to Mariupol’s economy. The dispute led to the last-minute scrapping of Sunday’s election in Mariupol, with both …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times
