Russian news: Western Media Get Ukraine Elections Wrong. There's Big Trouble Ahead - Russia Insider

Western Media Get Ukraine Elections Wrong. There's Big Trouble Ahead

Western media says they are legitimizing, stabilizing, and a vote for a turn towards the EU. This is simply not the case.

• The country is still badly split, East vs. West
• Turnout was low, especially in the critical East
• The East is dis-enfranchised
• Neo-Nazi street violence still a real political factor
• Popular support for Poroshenko is low
• Support for the war is low
• The government, and popular opinion, are deeply fractured
• Poroshenko failed to consolidate himself as the country's leader

Sunday’s Ukrainian parliamentary elections are being misunderstood by the international media and by elements of the Russian press.

There is a misperception that they were between competing parties with differing ideologies, such as those that take place elsewhere in Europe and throughout the world.

This is very far from being the case.

Ukraine this year has experienced a major power struggle between two factions of its political elite. In February 2014, one faction won the power struggle by resorting to a violent coup that gave it control of the levers of power.

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