May 25, 2014 Presidential Election
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Maksym Bugriy and Tetiana Tretiak: Russian factory ownership hurts Ukraine’s President Poroshenko
President Petro Poroshenko's continued ownership of a confectionary manufacturing facility in Lipetsk, Russia, has become such a political burden for the Ukrainian leader that he specifically addressed the issue of its sale in an exclusive TV interview earlier this month (March 2015) (TSN, March 13). Ukraine's president - who has yet to sell off his key business asset, the candy and chocolate producer Roshen Group - is under fire domestically for owning a factory in the adversary's country. At the same time, operations of Roshen's factory in Lipetsk are being disrupted in Russia as well.