: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Ukraine holds local elections that test oligarchs’ reach


MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians voted Sunday in local elections seen as a test of strength for President Petro Poroshenko’s government and for the oligarchs accustomed to running their own regions, but a last-minute dispute blocked the ballot in a key port city.

Sunday’s election was the third held nationwide since the chaotic overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Moscow president in February 2014, the annexation of Crimea by Russia a month later and the start of the war with Russia-backed separatists that has killed more than 8,000 people and left much of the country’s industrial treasures outside central government control.

In Dnipropetrovsk, another major …read more

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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