Researches about Ukraine

A nation on the brink: Ukraine faces its own demons

Brookings

While combat continues in Eastern Ukraine, a perhaps more important battle for the soul of Ukraine is playing out in the political corridors and the corporate boardrooms of Kyiv. Since independence, Ukraine has struggled continuously to break the iron triangle of oligarchic rule, corruption, and financial instability that has left Ukraine mired in poverty and instability. It has made depressingly little progress. That struggle has entered a new phase and acquired new momentum after the Maidan revolution, the Russian invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, and the formation of new reform-minded government. But the old demons remain and the early …read more

Source: Brookings

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