What it takes to be a Ukrainian oligarch Ukrainian oligarchs are not plutocrats of the billionaire George Soros kind, the type who have a strong influence in world politics via various funds and programs. The plutocrat influence over the...
The prescription for taming Ukraine’s oligarchs that we propose may seem radical. But it is nothing new. Even in early-modern Europe, emerging states tamed grasping nobles and corrupt mercantilists by attacking their economic privileges,...
Petro Poroshenko is not only the president of Ukraine but also one of the main oligarchs of the country. According to the rating prepared by Novoie Vremia together with Dragon Capital, he is the 4th richest person in Ukraine. His assets...
Ukraine’s Security Services (SBU) revealed one of numerous schemes by which the so-called republic’s leaders receive money from Ukraine, part of which is used to finance armed forces of the “republic” which is waging war...
Oligarch Viktor Pinchuk presented Ukrainians with a New Years gift by revealing his inner thoughts about the Donbas and Crimea, Russia, EU and NATO. Pinchuk clearly sees himself as an intermediary, like Henry Kissinger, between Presidents...
We have previously written about Ukrainian oligarchs who have a tremendous influence on the Ukrainian media landscape. However, are Western media safe from their influence? As several publications show, some world media can also easily...
During the last 3 years, Ukraine has made big progress in media freedom, despite the war. The Reporters Without Borders estimated that this year the country improved its position in the 2016 World Press Freedom Index and moved up 22...
Do you keep seeing “PrivatBank” in news reports about Ukraine? During the night of 19-20 December, Ukraine’s largest bank in terms of total assets, belonging to oligarchs Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Hennadiy Boholiubov, was nationalized by...
The key players in the Donbas’ booming smuggling business are politicians, oligarchs, and the criminal underworld. Coal, gold, gasoline, and cigarettes are the main resources the separatists are fighting for in eastern Ukraine, an...
On 1 July 2016, the Law on Prevention and Counteraction to Political Corruption (2123a) came in force. Many believe transparency and state funding will help end parties’ slavery from oligarchs to whom politics is the most profitable...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
