What’s the best way to save Ukraine? “By reforming the country,” says Sergii Leshchenko, a freshman member of the Ukrainian parliament. The war against Russian aggression isn’t the only front in his country’s struggle for survival right now. Leshchenko says that he’s even more worried about the fight against Ukraine’s long-established culture of sleaze — a disease that has crippled governance and stunted development. Battling corruption, he says, “is a bigger challenge” than the war in the East.
He knows of what he speaks. Last month, Leshchenko — a leading Ukrainian investigative journalist (and a Democracy Lab contributor) — won election …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
