Polls show Petro Poroshenko ahead of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Sunday’s election. The Euromaidan protestors in Kiev who ousted former president Viktor Yanukovich sought an end to the corruption, selective justice and crony capitalism that had plagued the country since the fall of the Soviet Union. How ironic then that the man who will likely be elected president of Ukraine this Sunday is a leading representative of this old way of doing things. Petro Poroshenko is an oligarch who has shifted political allegiances—even serving in the Yanukovich government—and exploited political ties for commercial gain. But whereas most […]

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