Friends Instead of Professionals: Why Ukrainian Presidents Fail to Overcome Corruption

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"Here you foreigners are shocked that the president's friends got involved in a corruption scandal, but we Ukrainians have not been surprised by this for a long time, because after regaining independence, there has not been a single president in three decades who has not had such problems," dentist Halina Ivanchenko said on Thursday. I have been visiting this dentist since the first year of the war, so she is no longer afraid to open up and ofte…

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (pictured) called for sanctions against his former close associate, businessman Tymur Mindych, who allegedly organized a large-scale corruption scheme.