In Ukraine’s East, Low Voter Turnout in Election Signals Kyiv’s Challenges
KURAKHOVE, Ukraine—For a decade of elections, voters would flock to Culture House in this industrial eastern town to cast their ballots for former President Viktor Yanukovych’s pro-Russia party.
On Sunday, only a trickle of locals showed up at the drab Soviet-era building—one the last polling stations before a new border that will demarcate the Ukrainian territory controlled by Kyiv and regions held by Russia-backed separatists.
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