Burisma, the Bidens and Ukraine’s bid to be energy independent:
... [+]Burisma Holdings has never been the topic around any dinner table. At least until the U.S. president tried to bring it to the fore by asking the Ukrainian president for help in deciphering what role other U.S. presidential hopefuls may have played with the natural gas company.
A new president was then elected named Petro Poroshenko, who served as president from 2014 to 2019. He too was allegedly corrupt, getting rich at Ukrainians’ expense. So in May 2019, a new election occurred — one that sweptinto the country’s highest office. Before that he had been a comedian. He ran as the ultra-reformer and the person who would rid Ukraine of the cronyism and corruption that has long been a part of that nation’s fabric.
Ditto for many Ukrainians, who also have Russian roots: the country’s number one goal, they say, is to rid itself of political corruption — the ability to buy favors at all levels of government. To that end, Zelensky signed the” while this reporter was in the country for the month of September.
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