Vladislav Davidzon: Intrigue, outrage, and relatively free elections in Ukraine
The 35-year-old army helicopter pilot, Ukrainian Nadiya Savchenko elected as an Ukrainian MP in absentia during almost two years in a Russian jail, attends a debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, on June 20.
On the eve of Ukraine’s special elections on July 17, Nadiya Savchenko walked into the crowded Stansiya Lughansk district commission offices in eastern Ukraine. She was there to campaign for Fatherland’s Iryna Verihina, who had been Luhansk’s governor for about six months before being replaced.
