2015 Local Election - Oct. 25
Vera Zimmerman: Making sense of Mariupol’s messy elections
Activists and members of the election commission watch to save ballots at a printing house in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Oct. 25, 2015, during Ukrainian local elections.
As cities finished counting the votes from Ukraine's second round of mayoral elections, Mariupol and Krasnoarmiisk in the Donetsk region still haven't held elections. Mariupol, which over the last nineteen months has been a strategic target of pro-Russian separatists, has become a political battleground.
