Parliamentary elections take place in Ukraine on Sunday and are expected to show what direction the under-pressure country is taking. After the Maidan movement protests led to the ouster of the Russian-leaning President Yanukovych in February, a more European-friendly President, Poroshenko was elected in May. This election represents the next step in Ukraine’s journey toward a new politics.
At least it might.
While the elections are predicted to be largely free and fair, with 5,600 law enforcement officers deployed across the country to police the poll, the old politics of oligarch control looks increasingly hard to shift. With 312 incumbents standing …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
