Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Tim Judah: Progress without peace
The evening before last weekend’s Ukrainian presidential election, I walked through the park by the university in Kiev and saw what looked like some sort of commotion. In fact, it was a large group of young people salsa dancing. A twenty-three-year-old woman called Valeria told me that she, like many others, would vote for the confectionary billionaire Petro Poroshenko—not because she liked him but because he was the least bad candidate. Her generation, she said, was determined to succeed where the Orange Revolution of 2004 had failed. It’s an argument that seems to have worked for Poroshenko, who won easily with some 55 percent of the vote.