In an unusual development, three foreigners were appointed to Ukraine's new government this week. US-born Natalie Jaresko became finance minister, Lithuania's Aivaras Abromavicius economy minister and Aleksander Kvitashvili - from Georgia - health minister. Hours before the vote in the parliament that installed them, all three were granted Ukrainian citizenship by President Petro Poroshenko.
BBC: Foreign-born ministers in Ukraine’s new cabinet
The new cabinet includes Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, the chief executive of a private-equity fund and a former U.S. diplomat, as well as two other nonnatives: Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, a former investment banker from Lithuania; and Health Minister Aleksander Kvitashvili from Georgia.
