Ukraine still needs a powerful push to finally shrug off the 2014-2015 crisis, which caused its economy to contract by 16.5 percent. The IMF prescribed anticorruption reform, privatization, pension reform, and allowing private sales of land to give Ukraine that boost. It is important to move fast with these reforms for two reasons: first, elections are fast approaching; and second, peak foreign debt payments are due in 2019.
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Oksana Bedratenko: Will Ukraine finally pass land reform?
People shout slogans holding posters which read "We won't let you steal our land" as they attend a rally against agricultural reform of Agricultural political party on June 7.
