
A man buys toilet paper printed with the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin on a stand in Kiev’s Independence Square, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. Ukraine’s parliament is something halfway between a wrestling pit and a shady backroom for hatching deals. Optimists believe Sunday’s elections will change all that. Voting in a fresh batchContinue reading “Ukraine Elections 2014”
A man buys toilet paper printed with the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin on a stand in Kiev’s Independence Square, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. Ukraine’s parliament is something halfway between a wrestling pit and a shady backroom for hatching deals. Optimists believe Sunday’s elections will change all that. Voting in a fresh batch of deputies, they hope, could kick-start a nation hobbled by endemic corruption and reliant on creaking Soviet-built industry. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)