Ukraine’s flailing president failing to turn the tide on graft
17 December 2020 - 10:11
Kiev — Ukraine’s president is losing a battle with the enduringly murky political system he was elected to eradicate.
A year and a half into his rule, Volodymyr Zelensky is flailing as hard-won reforms since the 2014 ouster of the country’s Kremlin-backed leader are being unravelled. As well as exposing his inexperience — the 42-year-old was a top television comic before taking office — the backsliding throws into question the future of a nation that’s for decades played an outsized role in geopolitics, repeatedly thrusting the West and Russia into a tug of war...
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