"I am extremely dissatisfied that the service being received by electricity customers in Scotland is getting significantly poorer, " he said.

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Indeed, frustrated with an endless carousel of politicians making promises but never delivering any results, Ukrainians are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with democracy itself, an extremely grave development that mirrors the slow erosion of support for democracy throughout much of post-Communist Eastern Europe.

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