Coynash: Yanukovych’s poor choice in Lviv
The president’s latest appointment as Lviv regional governor has elicited outrage in the region and warrants attention beyond. Police General Oleh Salo will be the fifth to hold this post since Yanukovych became president. The choice is at very least provocative especially given the inclusion of electoral and law enforcement reforms among the requirements for the signing of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. Salo was for some time on the wanted list over alleged involvement in election fraud during the 2004 elections which prompted the Orange Revolution. That knock to his career was never especially serious and ended when Yanukovych was elected President.