However, this doesn’t mean Kyiv has broken out into a flurry of law-passing and reform. Instead, the country has ground to a political and economic standstill with the administration focusing on a single goal: not to rock the boat and keep the country in a state of stasis until Viktor Yanukovych can be re-elected in early 2015.
New Eastern Europe: Digging the Trenches
European officials have described the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius this November as a last chance to sign the Association Agreement and move forward with Ukraine's European integration project before the 2015 presidential elections.
