Time Ripe for Ukraine Corruption Reforms

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...

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