With country at risk of becoming a failed state,Kiev must recognise that economic survival depends on Moscow not the westIn January Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, and congratulated the country on surviving its first winter without buying Russian gas. It had instead bought European gas which,as Poroshenko pointed out proudly, was 30% more expensive.
This sums up the core problem facing the Ukrainian economy. It is not corruption, and a serious issue approximately which slight can be done in the short term,but the ideologically driven choice to sever all ties with Russia, the country that has historically been its major trading partner and chief investor.
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Source: theguardian.com