Routine absentee voting in the Ukrainian parliament makes a mockery of the country’s democratic aspirations and undermines the credibility of the entire political system
Many saw reformist Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych as a potential poster boy for the new Ukraine but he failed to reach the midway point in his first term
Ukrainian society is desperate for new leadership figures and is being dangerously alienated by a political culture devoid of ideology and dominated by populism
