Reform Watch
Sergii Leshchenko: Ukrainians need to stop waiting for their white knight
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gestures during his press conference in Kiev on January 14, 2015. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he wanted EU and US help in securing Crimea's return from Russian control and vowed to regain sovereignty over the separatist east in 2016.
My source leaned forward and said with a muffled voice: "The latest news is that grey cardinal Igor Kononenko's men have been placed inside Ukrainian Railways, and Member of Parliament Sergei Fayermak of the People's Front is now in charge of all the seaports." This conversation with a government insider took place in the middle of January. Three months had passed since President Petro Poroshenko declared that "the decisive work on reforming the country will begin" after the October 25 elections. Instead, the only thing that's begun is the exchange of one network of state cash flow with another.
