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Ukraine’s ‘shadow economy’ is one of the largest in the world and its still growing


REUTERS/StaffLeonid is not exactly what you would expect from a black market money dealer.
He is young, well-built, handsome, and well-dressed. The upmarket café he chose to meet in is the kind that serves its meals on slates and offers menus in English as well as Ukrainian.
Leonid orders tea and adds honey before he begins to speak quietly, barely audible across the table. “The black market in Ukraine, it is not so black. It is just how things are here,” he said.
“We’re used to giving a ‘present’ to the doctor when we go. Right now the present is 200 hriyvna …read more

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