Is Ukraine a lazy nation?

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Jan. 5, 2013, 6:06 p.m. | Op-ed — by Andriy Kravets

Andriy Kravets ponders what it means when so much of the nation does not want to work.
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Why are well-educated and intelligent Ukrainians in the prime of their lives becoming stay-at-home plankton? And who are these people who don’t work, and don’t really want to work – at least under typically bad conditions?

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