Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun the fall 2020 season with a series of scandals and negative headlines that reflect the increasingly grim outlook for a politician who just eighteen months ago was hailed as the face of a new Ukraine. Zelensky promised to end an era of corruption stretching back to the dawn of Ukrainian independence. Instead, he stands accused of reversing the limited progress of recent years and opening the door to Russian revenge.

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