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NEW REPORT!
Ukraine's Other Front:
The War on Corruption
By Tamar Jacoby
Director of PPI's New Ukraine Project
A PPI Report
With the war in Ukraine entering its nineteenth month, Congress is debating whether to continue providing military and humanitarian aid. Ukrainian President Zelensky is in Washington today to meet with Republican leaders and urge them to stay the course, and part of the case he is making is about Ukraine’s ongoing fight to root out corruption and strengthen the rule of law. For both Ukraine and the United States, Ukraine’s war on corruption is as important as what’s happening on the battlefield.
Ukraine has struggled with a legacy of corruption since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. But it has also been fighting fiercely for more than a decade to beat back corruption and enhance the rule of law. In September alone, President Zelensky replaced the defense minister and arrested a powerful oligarch in an effort to combat corruption and prove to Kyiv’s Western allies that it is not squandering billions of dollars in aid.
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Today, the Progressive Policy Institute released a new report, "Ukraine's Other Front: The War on Corruption," analyzing the roots of Ukrainian corruption and the nation’s long, hard fight against it. Report author Tamar Jacoby, Director of the New Ukraine Project at PPI, outlines what Ukraine needs to do and how the U.S. can help with policy that combines support and “tough love” conditionality.
Read more about PPI's New Ukraine Project.
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Staff Spotlight: Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacoby
Director of the New Ukraine Project
Tamar Jacoby is the Kyiv-based director of the Progressive Policy Institute's New Ukraine Project. A former journalist and author, she was a senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek and, before that, the deputy editor of the New York Times op-ed page. She is the author of “Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration” and “Displaced: The Ukrainian Refugee Experience.”
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