War may have ended the era when Ukrainians traded their votes for some cooking oil and flour. "I took the buckwheat but voted my heart," reads an Internet meme of an elderly lady displaying a rude gesture on Twitter and Facebook from an Internet group called Our Guard. It's urging voters not to exchange ballots for food before Oct. 26 general election.
Oct. 26, 2014 Parliamentary Election
Bloomberg: Patriotism trumps graft in Ukraine’s wartime election
A woman walks past posters on Independance Square in Kyiv featuring shields in the colors of the Ukrainian flag and the words \"Glory to Ukraine!\" on Oct. 25, 2014, the eve of the country's parliamentary elections.
