Many Americans who care about Ukraine have expressed frustration with Ukrainian law enforcement and have called for more aggressive investigations and prosecutions of corrupt officials. For example, speaking to the US Chamber of Commerce last year, Vice President Joe Biden said, “Ukraine has a strategy and new laws to fight corruption, a new head of an independent national anti-corruption bureau. Now, they’ve got to put people in jail. They’ve got to actually do it.”
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Activists demand on April 8, 2014 that parliament pass a lustration law to dismiss judges who issued unlawful rulings.
The recent scandal surrounding alleged payments made to Paul Manafort by the former Ukrainian government has again cast a spotlight on corruption in Ukraine. Whatever one thinks of the Manafort story, no one can dispute that Ukrainians are entitled to an honest government that does not steal from them. But how can Ukraine achieve this goal? And what can the US do to help?
