The new Ukrainian leadership that came to power in the end of February 2014 has faced a set of substantial challenges the answer to which will decisively determine the level of its legitimacy, their public support and their ability to retain the power. The extreme level of difficulties that now Ukraine confronts are determined by a unique combination of economic and financial disorder inherited from the old government with the growing political conflict over the basic aspects of the mode of the country’s constitutional organization. Profound political divergences, which are being fed by rather significant cultural differences, have brought about …read more
Source: Razumkov Centre
