Just two days after being released from a Russian prison, pilot Nadiya Savchenko is capitalizing on her symbolic importance to Ukrainians, saying Friday that she would run for president “if Ukrainians want me to.”
Savchenko, Ukraine’s first female pilot, was elected to the country’s parliament and appointed to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe during her nearly two years in captivity, fueling speculation that she might have political ambitions.
“I don’t think Savchenko would use her immense credibility to fight over party leadership,” said Balazs Jarabik, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, …read more
Source: Voice of America
