The roots of today’s revival are found in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, when circles of nonconformist creative youth emerged in cities like Kyiv and Lviv.
Ukraine’s first president led the country away from communism, let the economy slip into the shadows. The first in a six-part series examining corruption in Ukraine under each post-Soviet president.
A standoff between Ukraine’s new president and its richest man could set the stage for serious structural reforms – or guarantee Ukraine remains trapped in its decades-old malaise.