Russian Organized Crime Essays (Examples)

Promises Of Democracy Capitalism In Ukraine

… Berezovsky from Russia under the Putin Regime sparked a chain of events that led to Ukraine’s upheaval. Though considered an “expulsion” by the russian billionaire, Berezovsky was actually summoned to appear for questioning by the Prosecutor General but chose to remain in exile in UK and obtain … throughout the 1990s, the hoped-for economic prosperity did not manifest and instead Ukraine lost 60% of its GDP that decade (IMF, 2007). Inflation, crime and corruption so plagued the country that soon workers were striking and protests were appearing en masse. Kuchma gave way to Berezovsky-backed Viktor … Yanukovych, who gave way to Western-backed Petro Poroshenko (Berezovsky found dead in this bathroom in England by that point), who promised to return Crimea to Ukraine (though the Crimean people themselves voted for annexation and a return to Russia), and the civil war that ensued ensured a limited run by Poroshenko and ………