Ukraine is nearing its third nation-wide election campaign since the fall of Viktor Yanukovych’s kleptocratic regime early last year. The ballot marathon commenced with presidential and parliamentary votes in 2014, and is now being followed by local elections, slated for October 25, 2015 (Kyiv Post, October 14).
Many observers, analysts and even top-ranking insiders, such as Oleksandr Bondar, a former chairman of Ukraine’s State Property Fund, used to believe that the popular EuroMaidan revolution and the following Russian aggression would lead to a total “rebooting” of the Ukrainian political system, which had been based on strong and omnipresent oligarchic rule for …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation
