Sergii Leshchenko: Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada – an oligarchs’ club or a real parliament?
Ukrainian MPs and President Petro Poroshenko (R) applauds during a Parliament session before the vote for MP Yuriy Lutsenko, as prosecutor-general in Kyiv on May 12, 2016.
A year ago, Ukraine's president promised to break the oligarchs' stronghold on power. While this is yet to happen, a new generation of deputies is changing the political atmosphere.