Steven Pifer: What Ukraine’s new prime minister is (and isn’t) likely to achieve
Newly appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman gestures during a parliamentary session in Kyiv on April 14.
A months-long political crisis in Kiev came to an end on April 14, when Ukraine’s Rada (parliament) approved a new prime minister. Expectations that the government will move on needed reforms and anti-corruption measures, however, are low.
