The ambiguous results of Ukraine’s October 2012 parliamentary elections suggested that
President Viktor Yanukovych might find it difficult to control Ukraine’s new legislature.
Yanukovych has thus begun to rely on authoritarian methods involving direct pressure,
falsifications, and legal manipulations to secure his reelection in 2015. At stake is the
future of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, a document initialed but not yet
signed, now an instrument hostage to Yanukovych’s stratagems.
