As we’ve been saying for a while now, endemic corruption is the biggest obstacle to a truly open and westernized Ukrainian society. Yet even after the Yanukovych’s thugs martyred the “heavenly hundred” protesters and caused Ukraine’s Maidan movement to boil over into a real uprising that overthrew the dictator (and got a certain opportunistic Mr. Putin thinking about drawing some new lines on the map), Ukrainian civil service jobs are mostly still staffed by the same people who were there two years ago.That, problematically enough, includes the police. So President Poroshenko, who successfully ran and re-ran on an anti-corruption platform, …read more
Source: The American Interest
