Anders Aslund: Ukraine can beat its political corruption
Vitaliy Shabunin (L), head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, and Ukrainian lawmaker, Serhiy Leshchenko (R), speak at the anti-corruption panel of a forum held by a pro-reform group in Kyiv on July 22.
Ukraine's politics suffer from a vicious circle of corruption. Its elections are extremely expensive. Large amounts of gray and black funds are needed to finance them. Criminals, called gray cardinals, handle this black financing, extracted from the state treasury and state companies.
