Matthew Pennekamp, Rachel Bauman
Security, Europe
The outright banning of a political party is a curiously illiberal move.
In a news story that skirted the dragnet of public attention, the Kiev District’s administration court on December 16 announced that it was placing a ban on the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU). The goal of both Poroshenko and his besieged prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, is to move their nation into some sort of alignment with the European Union by 2020, by which point Brussels will expect a healthy degree of liberalization. But the outright banning of a political party—however discordant such a party …read more
Source: The National Interest
