Ukraine will hold the country’s first nationwide local elections since completion of the initial phase of far-reaching decentralization reforms launched in April 2014. This gives the vote added significance as an important step forward for representative democracy in Ukraine and the adoption of European standards in self-governance.
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Activists of nationalist parties and activists protest in front of The Presidential Office on Oct. 1, 2019, in Kyiv against the just-approved ultimate edition of the so-called Steinmeier Formula regulating possible local elections in Russian-occupied Donbas as part of the Minsk peace settlement.
