Ukraine appears to have taken some very deliberate, forceful, and very welcome steps towards fighting the corruption that has been at the heart of its state since independence.
First, in a bid to end a dangerous standoff that had developed over the weekend, President Petro Poroshenko late last night fired upstart oligarch Igor Kolomoisky from his appointed post as governor of Dniepropetrovsk. Kolomoisky, chafing under a recent law which had restricted his veto power in two state-owned energy enterprises, had sent armed men to Kyiv to occupy the offices of the state oil company earlier this week. Poroshenko had given Kolomoisky …read more
Source: The American Interest
