Oct. 26, 2014 Parliamentary Election
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The Guardian: Farewell to Ukraine’s old politics
Members of a local electoral commission count ballots in a polling station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Oct. 26, 2014, after the country's parliamentary elections.
The Ukrainian parliamentary elections have confirmed the country's pro-European orientation and drawn into government a wide range of representatives of the social forces that brought about the Maidan revolution earlier this year. Not much remains of Ukraine's old politics. The pro-Russian parties have been all but extinguished. The influence of the oligarchs, whose capture of economic and political power was at the root of the corruption that bedevilled Ukraine after independence, has been diminished.
