Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Mohammad Zahoor: Ukraine has done nothing to tackle corruption – it must learn from Georgia
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili (L) and Arseny Yatsenyuk (R), leader of the Batkivshchina party, standing on Maidan Nezalezhnosti during Euromaidan protests in Dec. 2013.
I have been investing and doing business in Ukraine since its independence in 1991. I first arrived, aged 19, from Karachi on a scholarship to study metallurgy at Donetsk Technical University and after the break up of the Soviet Union stayed on and eventually invested $150 million in Istil Ukraine, creating the most technically advanced steel facility in the CIS. I left the steel business in 2008, and today Istil Group is a Ukrainian conglomerate operating in many areas including real estate, media, manufacturing and coal enrichment.
