As the fragile truce in eastern Ukraine has provided Kyiv with a respite from war, the Ukrainian authorities have begun to purge their own ranks. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who has been in charge of economic policy since the Maidan victory in February 2014, is having a hard time fending off corruption allegations. Ihor Kolomoysky, an oligarch who reportedly supported the Yatsenyuk party’s election campaign last year and was one of the few oligarchs to openly back the EuroMaidan movement from the very start, has lost the position of governor of a key eastern province over a conflict of …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation