Oct. 26, 2014 Parliamentary Election
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Economist: The battle for Ukraine’s future
Billboards of the leader of Right Sector, a far-right Ukrainian party, are set above shops on Oct. 23, 2014 in the market in Lviv.
Only a few photographs of dead fighters and flowers in the centre of Kyiv recall the dramatic events that unfolded on Independence Square, or the Maidan, a year ago. The barricades and the encampment are long gone. The city feels subdued and traumatised as it awaits the parliamentary elections on Oct. 26th. The energy and hope of a new beginning that sustained the revolution have been drained by a war that has claimed 3,600 lives. Crimea is gone; large swathes of Donbas, the industrial region in the south-east, have been seized by separatists; the ceasefire is fragile.
