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The latest news:
- Last week all hell broke loose when Ukraine’s Constitutional Court declared a law criminalizing unlawful enrichment unconstitutional. This week, the World Bank and the G7 have called that decision “a serious setback in the fight against corruption in Ukraine.” They now want Kyiv to re-criminalize it.
- In another of last week’s scandals — there were several — the journalists of Bihus.Info revealed that the son of Oleh Hladkovskiy, deputy secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, was involved in a scheme to embezzle money from the country’s defense sector. Now President Petro Poroshenko has fired Hladkovskiy, a close friend and associate, on the day that the second part of the Bihus.Info investigation was set to reveal the official’s connection to the corruption scheme.
- A famous female warlord who fought for Russia in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas has defected to the Ukrainian side and is revealing details about the Kremlin’s war in the region.
- Comedian-turned presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy is pulling even further ahead in the polls as incumbent Poroshenko and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko battle it out for second.
- Our Washington, D.C. correspondent takes a look at how Daniel Bilak, investment advisor to Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, is working to attract American investments to Ukraine.
- Experts say sanctions on Russia are working, but they need more time.
- Our Canada correspondent takes a look at the Canadian election monitoring mission that is returning to Ukraine for the March 31 vote.
- Finally, if you’d like an entertaining roundup of last week’s most important and craziest news (in this case, they’re the same) check out the latest edition of our weekly Kyiv Post Newsy Vlog hosted by Oleksiy Sorokin.
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