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C0RI0LANUS

(510 posts)
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 06:14 AM Jan 2023

Senior Ukrainian officials quit amid corruption crackdown

Source: London Broadcasting Company

Volodymyr Zelensky pledged to launch a staff shake-up amid high-level corruption allegations during the war with Russia. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, resigned, along with deputy defence minister Viacheslav Shapovalov.



Read more: https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/d91af84a0f5749908fdc35c98d5ae2c0/



Pres Zelensky has a lot of house-keeping to do while fighting a war.
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Senior Ukrainian officials quit amid corruption crackdown (Original Post) C0RI0LANUS Jan 2023 OP
Organized crime group in Ukraine? Funded by Putin perhaps? Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #1
The Russian Mafiosi are inter-ethnic and wide-spread. C0RI0LANUS Jan 2023 #2
Jebus. What a list. Rachel Maddow says Russia isn't a country. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #4
In similar vein: C0RI0LANUS Jan 2023 #5
North Korea: An army with a starving country. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #6
Purr-fect! C0RI0LANUS Jan 2023 #10
I wish ours would. ananda Jan 2023 #3
Exactly what I was thinking. ..nt Karma13612 Jan 2023 #9
Zelensky is using.... Happy Hoosier Jan 2023 #7
Excellent! Karma13612 Jan 2023 #8
Weed 'em out. Like he doesn't have enough to do and just lost a senior staff member Evolve Dammit Jan 2023 #11
I fear for his life. He has not only Russian armed forces after him LiberalLovinLug Jan 2023 #12

C0RI0LANUS

(510 posts)
2. The Russian Mafiosi are inter-ethnic and wide-spread.
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 07:18 AM
Jan 2023

The Chechen Mafia is probably the second most powerful (or dangerous) gang in the FSU. Govts change hands, but the mobsters remain.

Here's some info from wiki, Irish Dem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_post-Soviet_gangsters

Irish_Dem

(45,640 posts)
4. Jebus. What a list. Rachel Maddow says Russia isn't a country.
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 09:24 AM
Jan 2023

It is a big piece of land ruled by the Russian mob.

Thanks!

Happy Hoosier

(7,081 posts)
7. Zelensky is using....
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 10:17 AM
Jan 2023

.... his new found clout to try and drag Ukraine into the modern world of liberal democracies. If he does that AND beats Russia, he'll be founding father a new, modern, European Ukraine.

Karma13612

(4,527 posts)
8. Excellent!
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 10:39 AM
Jan 2023

Albeit rather bad timing with a war going on!

All I can say is, I wish we could get rid of the treasonous SOB’s in our FBI, Secret Service, etc.

And when are we going to be rid of DeJoy? Or is that not a big thing anymore?

LiberalLovinLug

(14,154 posts)
12. I fear for his life. He has not only Russian armed forces after him
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 06:13 PM
Jan 2023

But mobsters too operating in Ukraine.

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