However, the bad news for Ukraine’s post-Maidan regime doesn’t end there. According to recent polls, in less than 12 months since assuming office,
President Petro Poroshenko’s approval rating has fallen to 33 percent, with only 12.6 percent of respondents fully support the oligarch.
His prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, fares even worse with a mere 7.8 percent expressing complete satisfaction with his performance.
Bryan MacDonald explains these devastating poll numbers by the hard-hitting economic crisis Ukraine is going through.
“Ordinary Ukrainians are realizing that, rather than heralding a bright future, the Maidan movement has in fact destroyed the country. A nation that was already poor by comparison with its Russian and EU neighbors is now impoverished by collation with many African states,” MacDonald wrote.
However, instead of devoting every waking hour to the fiscal crisis, Poroshenko’s pro-US regime has introduced a law which prohibits the showing of "any Russian films, documentaries, TV series or cartoons" made since January 2014 or any productions portraying Russia in a favorable light made after August 1991.”
“Russian culture is a fact of life in Ukraine. Almost everybody — even radical nationalists — can speak Russian. Prohibiting Russian cartoons, reality shows and soap operas won't change that. For Ukraine to survive, the country’s fractured unity must be somehow restored. However, if the current regime continues its petty policy of cultural one-upmanship, they are signing their own political death warrants,” Bryan MacDonald concluded.
