National Security Council secretary Oleksiy Danilov has said that as many as 86 people can fall under the label of “oligarchs” in Ukraine - generally referring to a monopolistic businessmen with major influence in politics and often an owner of some media holdings. As many as 86 people can fall under the label of “oligarchs” in Ukraine. Now the National Security Council is working on the Register of Oligarchs, which is expected to be finalized soon, reports the Ukrainian edition of Radio Svoboda. Ruslan Demchenko, the first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, was also dismissed.Īt the same time, a law to curb the political influence of oligarchs, which the parliament approved in September, came into force on June 7. In July, Zelensky fired two top officials, Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov, facing allegations of high treason and cooperation with Russia. The crackdown is not brand new, but became particularly active after Ukraine gained EU membership candidacy status, as the fight against oligarchs is one of the conditions set by Brussels for candidate countries to receive membership. But now, unlike his predecessors, Zelensky does not have the luxury of continuing to play a double game, advocating for the end of corruption while maintaining ties with the oligarchs - especially because the latter are, in one way or another, connected with Russia.
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Virtually every Ukrainian president announced a course toward Europe and promised to crack down on oligarchs and destroy corruption. Three decades later, although Ukraine was striving with all its might to become a part of the European Union, it was still firmly tied to Russia through corrupt schemes and political influence. Since initially all the money of the USSR was in the Kremlin, the strings of new clans from Ukraine and other republics were also pulled from there. So there were entire families and clans that controlled the most profitable sectors of the economy and simultaneously controlled the political course of the country.
In Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, it was simply impossible to do any significant business without being associated with politics. After gaining independence in 1991, not all post-Soviet republics were able to escape from the system in which money equals power.
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