Editor’s Note: The following is an interview on Dec. 3 by Kyiv Post columnist Sergii Leshchenko, the former Ukrainian member of parliament, with Francis Fukuyama, director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University in California. Fukuyama is among America’s most influential political scientists and writers.

Kyiv Post: The main issue is impeachment. What is your understanding of the situation — how far the impeachment inquiry can go and what will be the legal result of the inquiry?