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Current president Petro Poroshenko (right, with EU Council president Donald Tusk) is currently polling in second or third place for the 31 March election (Photo: consilium.europa.eudering)

Ukrainian election: a country struggling to reform itself

As Ukraine's presidential election on March 31 nears, questions swirl about how it will affect the pace of reforms in the country.

Current president Petro Poroshenko was elected in May 2014 amid hopes he would withstand Russian military aggression while implementing the reforms demanded by the Euromaidan uprising, sometimes known as the Revolution of Dignity and supported by international partners.

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Iryna Solonenko is a researcher at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt and der Oder, and associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations. She is also part of the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Thinkers network.

Current president Petro Poroshenko (right, with EU Council president Donald Tusk) is currently polling in second or third place for the 31 March election (Photo: consilium.europa.eudering)

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Iryna Solonenko is a researcher at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt and der Oder, and associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations. She is also part of the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Thinkers network.

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