Recently the World Bank Country Director for Ukraine Satu Kahkonen made an unusually direct statement about reforms perspective in Ukraine: “There are risks of slowing down the reforms because of the elections. The case is not just in elections — we have already pointed out that this slowdown has happened. There is a risk that reforms will be stopped. Even worse — some of the key reforms are going to move backward”.
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Activists, medical workers and patients hold placards reading "We demand medical reform", "We are for honest medicine" and "No bribes in hospitals" during a protest in front of the Ukrainian Parliament in Kyiv on May 25, 2017.