Last month, activists and students barricaded the doors of the central Kiev branch of Sberbank, a Russian state-owned bank. The message: Stop the Kremlin from using profits made in Ukraine to fund its war against Ukraine.
The demonstration was a manifestation of growing popular fury over the perception that the primary beneficiaries of Ukraine’s economic policies are Moscow and local oligarchs with business interests in Russia.
The discontent had been bubbling under the surface for some time. When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that state-funded banks in Ukraine would accept passports issued by separatist authorities of the Donbass republics, it finally boiled …read more
Source: European Voice
