Can athletes build the viable political opposition Ukraine needs?

World Famous Boxer Battles Ukraine Political Establishment in Support of Local Democracy

Klitschko is big hit with Ukrainian voters

AFP – Ukraine prepared Saturday for parliamentary polls in which superstar boxer Vitali Klitschko has emerged as an unlikely challenger to the ruling party in place of the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. The ex-Soviet strategic nation of 46 million nestled between the EU and Russia.