Elections in Ukraine always stir considerable interest in Russia. Political scientist Leonid Radzikhovsky explains why Ukraine is a mirror in which Russia views itself.
The preliminary results of the parliamentary elections to Ukraine’s
Verkhovna Rada are in: first place (as in 2007) belongs to the Party of
Regions, though its results this time were even better.
Second place went to the party Batkovschina, which
fared much worse than it had in 2007 – when it was known as the “Bloc of
Yulia Timoschenko.” The Communist vote also soared, and the party is now
in third position. As expected, Yuschenko’s party (third in 2007) failed to
cross even the 5 percent threshold.
