Ukraine’s Yanukovich: corruption talks, EBRD walks | beyondbrics:
"Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich sounded deadly serious during a passionate speech he gave on his administration’s commitment to fighting corruption on Wednesday.
Himself accused of corrupt practices for the way he managed to occupy a lavish estate in a Kiev suburb, it was delivered at a World Economic Forum event in Kiev, a gathering to discuss the nation’s future as the EU summit nears in later this month in Vilnius. But hang on: wasn’t the EBRD supposed to be in town to sign a new anti-corruption pledge? What happened to that?
The WEF event that Yanukovich spoke at certainly included friends in attendance: it was sponsored by Group DF, owned by gas and energy tycoon Dmytro Firtash, who recently sponsored another event to spread Ukrainian culture throughout London; System Capital Management, owned by the nation’s richest man Rinat Akhmetov who hails from the president’s native region of Donbas; and Smart-Holding, owned by newly-minted Ukrainian citizen Vadim Novinsky who was recently elected to the pro-presidential Party of Regions."
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