During the modern Ukraine era, several high-level international conferences were held in the country. However, none of them were organized without oligarchic money. The first high-level forum to buck the trend was Democracy in Action, which was set up and run solely by civic society. There, the topic of Ukraine’s de-oligarchization was finally discussed at a prominent level as a real issue. And this not only from Ukraine’s perspective, but also from the point of view of the significant influence that the Ukrainian oligarchs wield in the West.
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Olena Makarenko: Why oligarchs are not only Ukraine’s problem
Nationalist demonstrators rally against oligarchs on April 3, 2018 in Kyiv and hold a banner that reads “For a Ukrainian Future Without Oligarchs.” Two years later, President Volodymyr Zelensky submitted a bill that seeks to limit the influence of oligarchs.
