Alexander J. Motyl: Ukraine’s bumpy road to normalcy
A man punches an effigy of Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 31, 2015 on a street in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.
The most striking thing about Lviv, Kyiv, and a number of small towns and villages I've recently visited is their normalcy. Walk down the streets or dirt roads and you'd never think Ukraine's economy is depressed and that the country is at war. A village church I visit is full of people dressed in their Sunday best. Lviv's cafes are packed. Kyiv's main drag, the Khreshchatyk, is as fashionable as before Russia's onslaught.
