Western aid programs designed to attack corruption in Ukraine are failing. Instead of acknowledging the significant degree to which Ukraine has changed for the better, Western-backed approaches misrepresent ongoing reforms as woefully inadequate. In so doing, they discredit the reforms, polarizing the country’s elites, promoting mass mobilization, encouraging left- and right-wing populism, weakening Ukraine at a time of war and Russian occupation, and contributing to the country’s instability.
Ukraine-European Union Relations
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Adrian Karatnycky, Alexander Motyl: How Western anticorruption policy is failing Ukraine
The photo shows Ukrainian parliament, Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv on Sept. 7, 2017.
