Balázs Jarábik: Ukraine putting out fires after local elections
In recent months, dozens of peat fires have simmered around Kyiv, sometimes coating the capital with a thick smog. The day before the Oct. 25 local elections, the authorities announced that they had managed to contain the fires. Their success was eerily similar to the way election campaigns and politics actually work in Ukraine: lots of last-minute firefighting, as opposed to searching for long-term solutions.