After church, Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of Lviv, stopped by a local polling station on Oct. 26 to vote in the Ukrainian parliamentary elections, accompanied by his wife and two of their sons. On their way back from liturgy at St. George's, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic cathedral overlooking the city, they embodied the stereotype of the perfect western Ukrainian family: pious, patriotic, and civically engaged. (The Lviv region had the highest voter turnout in Ukraine: 70 percent, compared to the national average of 52 percent.
Foreign Policy: In a new Ukraine, the sun rises in the West
A woman sits on a bench painted in the colours of the Ukrainian national flag in Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine, on Oct. 22, 2014.
