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A dozen of jobs, lack of systemic results, conflicts, and murky connections. The career of the new leader of Ukraine’s Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA), Olena Duma, resembles that of a shrewd official who, over the years, has turned into a technocratic figure close to post-Soviet security services.
Ukrainian authorities have begun carrying out searches targeting politicians, civil servants and oligarchs. Some people have been fired, and others are suspected of corruption. But is the anti-graft drive for real?
As Ukraine makes small gains in Transparency International’s corruption rankings, experts analyze what’s working well and where the challenges lie in the state anti-corruption architecture.