Weinig animo voor de verkiezingen in Oekraïne, het is de keuze tussen verschilende soorten dieven, terwijl het dagelijkse leven voor de meeste Oekraïeners een strijd om te overleven is geworden, bijna 2 jaar na Maidan. De economische crisis begint zich overal te manifesteren, de Maidan-leugens worden doorprikt.
On Sunday (25 October), less than half of the electorate showed up at local elections. Low turnout and allegations of fraud amid a faltering economy is frustrating the pace of Western-backed reforms and many who helped topple Ukraine's former president Viktor Yanukovych.
The billionaire confectionery magnate Poroshenko blamed the pro-Russian Opposition Bloc for electoral irregularities as polls were cancelled in the besieged port city of Mariupol.
Many of the ousted president's supporters now belong to the Opposition Bloc and accuse the ruling party of stopping the poll out of fear of being defeated.
Rinat Akhmetov, a billionaire and former Yanukovych ally, is the city's main employer. A company owned by Akhmetov had also printed the ballots in dispute.
But with household energy prices on the rise along with inflation topping 50 percent, many around the country are asking what happened to the reforms promised two years ago in the aftermath of the Euromaidan revolution.
The conflict has so far killed some 8,000 people and displaced over a million in a nation grappling with corruption and high unemployment. The World Bank says Ukraine's real GDP will fall by 12 percent this year alone.
Support for prime minister Arseny Yatseniuk's party dropped to around 1 percent compared to 20 percent last year.
https://euobserver.com/foreign/130835
In tegenstelling to het regime in Oekraïne, blijft het regime in Rusland heel populair.
Meer dan 70% van de Russen steunt de beslissing om islamisten te bombarderen in Syrië, in Rusand kun je nu overal t shirts met de afbeelding van Assad kopen.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ew-high-as-ru/
Kan echter nog niet tippen aan de populariteit die de aanhechting van de Krim en de steun aan pro-Russische rebellen heeft is Rusland, meer dan 90% steunt deze politiek.