Ukraine’s Maidan reformers had a real shot at reaching a tipping point and changing the country once and for all. In 2014, the reform-oriented Samopomich party, led by Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, performed far better than expected in the parliamentary elections just a few months after street protests ejected pro-Russian President Victor Yanukovych. The Lviv-based party took thirty-three seats and joined the governing coalition; its roster included a number of new faces from business, academia, and civil society.
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Ukrainian businessman and the former head of the Kyiv faction of the Samopomich Party, Sergiy Gusovsky, holds charters at Charity evening of Kyiv Mohyla National University on Nov. 19 in Kyiv.
