MONDAY 5 AUGUST 2019

Is Ukraine’s nice revolution

about to turn nasty?

As the country operates with a one-party government for the first time

in its post-Soviet history, political rivals accuse Volodymyr Zelensky’s

administration of plotting revenge

Under expanded laws Mr Zelensky’s party could bar all former MPs from office (EPA)

OLIVER CARROLL

IN KIEV

Whatever adjectival qualifier they use, everyone in Kiev is sure they have witnessed a revolution: electoral,
populist, socialist, libertarian or, in the opinion of the more excited, Bolshevik.

Never before has the country switched to the command of one person. Not even Viktor Yanukovych, the
disgraced former president who tried to build a dictatorship before being overthrown, managed it. Mr
Yanukovych had 72 deputies. Volodymyr Zelensky, a 73-per-cent man of the people, is the pied piper of a

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