Alexander J. Motyl: Promising structural change begins to show in Ukraine

Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk chairs a government meeting on Nov. 11.
The seemingly unchanging nature of Ukraine's dysfunctional politics can easily mask the reality: Ukraine itself is changing. Three sets of data illustrate the point. The Ukrainian Week recently published numbers on the changes in Ukraine's ethnic composition brought about by general demographic trends and, above all, Russia's annexation of the Crimea and occupation of one third of the Donbas.