The slogan “Let’s take back Crimea” no longer works in Ukraine
In the 2019 elections, the Ukrainian authorities will rely on the fight against the so-called “fifth column”.
Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute for Policy Management Analysis, said this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The expert recalled that in 2014, in the first elections after the Maidan, the key topic was the war in the east and the situation in Crimea.
“Remember the slogans “Let's take back Crimea” and end the war in two weeks, as some people promised us. Today, these factors have exhausted themselves, and therefore, it seems to me that the government will make its key tool in the 2019 elections the fight against the “fifth column,” which before our eyes could turn into a witch hunt,” the political scientist predicts.
Billboard of Ukrainian presidential candidate Oleg Lyashko in 2014.
See also: They said goodbye in Lviv with the “hopelessly infected” Crimea.
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