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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts) Thu Mar 10, 2022, 09:57 AM Mar 2022

Ukraine's Rejection Of Russian Corruption Set Context For Putin's Invasion

Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, describes Ukraine's recent history of trying to purge corruption from its government, the hindrance Donald Trump was to that effort, and the hero Volodymyr Zelenskyy has become to his people.

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Ukraine's Rejection Of Russian Corruption Set Context For Putin's Invasion (Original Post) L. Coyote Mar 2022 OP

Russia needed to de-de-corrupt Ukraine ck4829 Mar 2022 #1

ck4829

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1. Russia needed to de-de-corrupt Ukraine

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Thu Mar 10, 2022, 10:07 AM

Mar 2022

Corruption is so ubiquitous in Russia that “clean money” is viewed with suspicion over laundered money.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/7/30/9073285/putin-russia-corruption

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