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"President Viktor Yanukovych and the new government had a very good year in 2010. They reached an agreement with the IMF, initiated intense negotiations regarding the free trade area with the EU, and signed the Action Plan on visa regime liberalization. They saw the country growing again, and did not go bankrupt like Greece," stated Bruce Jackson, the president of the Project on Transitional Democracies and a successful US lobbyist in his interview to The Day. Bruce Jackson has been a frequent visitor to Ukraine in the last years. This week he met with the Ukrainian President, the head of the Ukrainian Intelligence (SBU) and other officials, and also had a chance to share his opinion with Ukrainian media. The renowned American expert positively assessed the Ukraine's efforts to fight corruption. Read the story here.