"Shame! Shame! Shame!" roared the crowd when Ukraine's leaders appeared at a recent ceremony honouring the Maidan victims. Protesters accused President Petro Poroshenko of breaking promises. A year after the "revolution of dignity" began, the politicians are being anything but dignified. A month has passed since the general election and still Ukraine has no government. Fights over cabinet posts or parliamentary seating speak to a lack of urgency. "It's a circus, a kindergarten," says Maria Zhartovskaya, political correspondent for Ukrainskaya Pravda, a website.
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during the opening of a session in Kyiv on Nov. 27.
