Between guns and disgust in eastern ukraine.

AVERSION; POLLING places; FIREARMS; ELECTION boards; ELECTION districts

The road from Donetsk to Mariupol offered a useful allegory for this part of Ukraine today, as the country elected a new president. The first checkpoint at the edge of Donetsk, the de facto capital of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, was manned by swaggering men in balaclavas carrying Kalashnikovs. Nor will it prevent the leaders of the Donetsk People's Republic -- and if it chooses, Russia -- from claiming that the new president of Ukraine lacks a mandate in the east; exit polls show billionaire Petro Poroshenko as the clear winner. [Extracted from the article]

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