Adrian Karatnycky: EuroMaidan leaders launch new party in Ukraine. Can it succeed?
Sergii Leshchenko (L) and Mustafa Nayyem, lawmakers with the Bloc of President Petro Poroshenko, talk in the Verkhovna Rada on May 20.
As Europe lurches in the direction of populism, xenophobic anti-immigrant attitudes, and anti-EU posturing, Ukraine appears to be tilting the other way. Located largely outside European discourse for the last twenty-five years, Ukraine is now odd man out, with pro-EU sentiments running high, xenophobic attitudes largely absent, and not one but two initiatives under way to create new liberal political parties.
