Despite repeated attempts to undertake reforms aimed at increasing the transparency of the state, Ukraine remains a country in which oligarchs play a key and the negative role. They control a significant part of industry and the most important media. The most recent local elections showed that they are building their own political centres and creating new groups, and the vote of no confidence against Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s government reveals they also control part of parliament as well. The dispute between President Petro Poroshenko and leading oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, a businessman supporting him, is becoming increasingly evident. This can result in …read more
Source: The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)