On March 20, the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center hosted its first online public event entitled: “Big changes in Kyiv: What do they mean?” The theme of the event was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s early March government shake-up, which saw some of the country’s most prominent reformers removed and numerous old faces from discredited previous regimes return to power. Many observers saw this as the end of the honeymoon period for Zelenskyy, who took office in May 2019 as a protest vote president who promised to introduce fresh faces while drawing a line under decades of institutionalized corruption and political dysfunction.
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