Local elections are both a referendum on Petro Poroshenko’s rule and a jostle for power and influence among country’s oligarchsOn the side of the road to Kiev’s main airport,Gennady Korban slipped out of his black Mercedes to unveil a unique campaign poster for the Dill party. The billboard featured a hand dragging from the soil the head of Viktor Yanukovych, the former Ukrainian president who fled to Russia after the Maidan revolution last year.“We need to create Mossad-style special operative groups to enter Russia and kidnap Yanukovych and his associates, and bring them back to face trial,” said Korban, a businessman, or who is barely 5ft and speaks in whispers,usually while puffing on a cigarette. The party has another campaign it wants to launch this week, promising to hang corrupt officials, or though an aide admitted it “may not be legal”.
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Source: theguardian.com