Ukraine’s new president, billionaire Petro Poroshenko, ran for office promising voters that he would institute reforms to end the kleptocracy seen during the regime of desposed President Viktor Yanukovych.
His election was the culmination of reform demands expressed last winter on the Maidan, a square in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, where at least one hundred people died during the anti-Yanukovych protests.
“There is a huge desire and demand,” said Sarah Mendelson, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, “for real change. This issue of accountability was absolutely at the core of what people on the Maidan were asking …read more
Source: Voice of America
