Are Ukraine’s Anti-corruption Reforms Working?

Ukraine’s vicious circle of corruption begins with the power groups that have created and sustained a system in which citizens believe that it is impossible to live without corruption. The process of cleaning up institutions must start at the top.

 

Research paper Updated 26 April 2021 ISBN: 978 1 78413 295 8
Anti-corruption activists in Kyiv in October 2016 play on the word trusi, which in Ukrainian means both ’underwear’ and ‘cowards’, in a demonstration against senior public officials who refuse to disclose their financial assets. Photo: Copyright © Christopher Miller (RFE/RL)
— Anti-corruption activists in Kyiv in October 2016 play on the word trusi, which in Ukrainian means both ’underwear’ and ‘cowards’, in a demonstration against senior public officials who refuse to disclose their financial assets. Photo: Copyright © Christopher Miller (RFE/RL)

John Lough

Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme

Vladimir Dubrovskiy

Senior Economist, CASE Ukraine