Odessa Oblast: Governor Saakashvili’s superficial changes.OSW COMMENTARY NUMBER 196|February 2016
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2016

Two years after the Revolution of Dignity, Odessa Oblast, one of Ukraine’s key regions in economic and political terms, is still strongly polarised as regards its residents’ views on the future of their country. The political circles rooted in the Party of Regions have maintained their influence to a great extent due to increasing dissatisfaction with the central government’s activity and with the economic crisis which has strongly affected the public. Politicians linked to the ancien régime rem