How Russia Is Helping Ukraine Solve Its Biggest Problem @VisualPolitikEN

If there is something that has characterized post-Soviet Ukraine, it is precisely corruption. We are talking about the country considered the most corrupt in all of Europe. And the question is, why? Who really owns Ukraine? What is the war with Russia implying for the powerful Ukrainian oligarchs? In this video, we will tell you.

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[imperiumgraecum]

-Oh no, the ukrainian oligarchs are losing their wealth.
-Aaaanyway....

[BatkoNashBandera]

It's tragic to realize that the only way my country could potentially be able to become less corrupt is through war. Bulgaria 2024.

[haruhisuzumiya]

Ukraine needs to get rid of oligarchs from going into office to get immunity

[Vincentovich]

The world could do without Oligarchs entirely.

[jacobhuff]

Russian invasion of Ukraine basically destroyed it's influence in Ukraine. Still caution is needed. Even if you deal with the corruption of the oligarchs there is still issue of dealing with the system that enabled them to continue and preventing a new corruption from takings it's place. Still it's progress.

[davidanderson]

Ukraine is doing a great job. Look at how the Baltic states have grown in wealth. Oligarchs have no place in a new democracy

[bamdadkhan]

in the east they are called oligarchs
in the west they are called billionaires

[robertgehrig]

They’ll convert into regular business men. The question is how well? They have the money, but can they function with competition?
The bigger question is can every other country learn something from this fight against oligarchs? Could say America pass a similar rule? Do we have billionaires now that would fit the definition of oligarchs? Interesting thought experiment.

[immortalsofar]

I wish the US would pass such laws against their oligarchs to end the current corruption over there.

[noodleppoodle]

I don't think this issue is getting solved at all. I live in Poland in central Warsaw and we can observe in the refugees from Ukraine what huge economic disparities exist there. We are a relatively equal country ourselves. The Ukrainian refugees are either very poor or ultra rich. All the most expensive cars, some of types I have never seen, are on Ukrainian plates. Ukrainians are also in very high concentrations in all the expensive places in the city, niche perfume shops, upmarket flashy restaurants and other places where you can spend money. Some people think it's inappropriate the Polish taxpayer funds one section of the population while the other section are having the absolute time of their life.

[vladkhom]

Bulgaria or Romania, North Macedonia were accepted in NATO and/or EU despite being more corrupt at that time by most metrics than Ukraine while Ukraine was left out so that russia would not stop that cheap gas supply. Ukraine has problems with corruption but the progress is amazing I hope it will continue if Ukraine will survive.

[Peter-xzdl]

People never talk about Western Oligarchs, which very much exist and have so much unaccountable power. We just like to look outside.

[plumbummanx]

Are Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk oligarchs? What about Trump?

[mrpicky]

wish we, Ukrainians, had as optimistic view on things like you

[valentinstoyanov]

By the way, Rinat Ahmetov owns the second largest steel mill in Bulgaria - Promet Steel, near Burgas, at the Black Sea coast.

[AlexNitavsky]

What??? Did you just put Grammarly founders to the list of oligarchs?
Ukraine is also a big IT hub with few tech billionaires who has nothing to do with corruption

[guzydibs]

ive got a feeling that the oligarchs arent the biggest problem right now

[aliancemd]

I don’t know where you pulled your stats from that Ukraine is “the most corrupt and the poorest in Europe” - statistics disagree with your claims.
Statistics say that Moldova is the poorest country in Europe and Russia it the most corrupt.

[lordmike]

So did these oligarchs all avoid military service tho?

[victordempsey]

As someone who regularly visits Ukraine and has witnessed the changes, I want to congratulate VisualPolitik for an excellent appraisal of the historical conditions and the huge changes taking place in Ukraine. It is essential that Russia never gets back any sort of control. Given access to the EU, I predict Ukraine will become one one of the powerhouses of Europe.