Parliamentary vote likely to widen divide between east and west of country as support expected for Petro PoroshenkoUkraine is voting in parliamentary elections that could cement a new pro-western course for the country, seven months after the revolution that toppled the former president, Viktor Yanukovych.But the vote comes while parts of eastern Ukraine remain under the de facto control of pro-Russian separatists, and an increasingly radical mood takes hold in much of the rest of the country, impatient for reforms from a new government led by billionaire chocolate magnate, Petro Poroshenko. … …read more
Source: The Guardian
