Nicolai N. Petro, Josh Cohen
Politics, Eurasia
A blockade has revealed the government’s unwillingness to enforce state authority against unsanctioned vigilantism.
While political Washington is absorbed in its quest to figure out how Vladimir Putin managed to get Donald Trump elected president of the United States, Ukraine is facing a dire political crisis.
Since mid-December, about a hundred veterans of the volunteer military battalions, along with two members of the Ukrainian parliament, have been blockading rail transport in and out of the regions of Ukraine currently under rebel control. Ostensibly they are doing so to highlight the fact that, while the country is …read more
Source: The National Interest
