On April 14, Ukraine’s parliament replaced the cabinet of unpopular Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk with one headed by Volodymyr Hroysman, who had served as parliament speaker since November 2014. A former mayor of President Petro Poroshenko’s electoral and business stronghold of Vinnytsya, Hroysman has always been in Poroshenko’s political shadow. His political experience is no match to that of Yatsenyuk; and a new wafer-thin majority in parliament would not have appointed his cabinet but for the votes, at the eleventh hour, from two factions reportedly linked to oligarchs (Tsn.ua, April 15). In short, the starting position is not impressive. But …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation