Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy has worked hard to publicly distance himself from one of the country’s wealthiest and most controversial oligarchs, Ihor Kolomoyskiy, and show a public eager for change that he is the antiestablishment insurgent chosen by 73 percent of voters in last weekend’s election.
Oligarch Watch
RFE/RL: Lawyer for Ukrainian oligarch claims he planted seed of Zelenskiy presidency
Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy (C), accompanied by his wife Olena, visits a polling station during the second round of a presidential election in Kyiv on April 21, 2019.
