NEWSLINK Foreign Policy: Ukraine’s Rotten Front Forget Russia — if the new government wants to save the country, it needs to drum corruption out of its ranks.

Ukrainian leaders, it has been said, never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Though it’s still unclear whether the new government can break this pattern, the opportunity before it now is nothing less than to undo the system of institutionalized corruption that has held Ukraine down since independence, and made it vulnerable to aggression and dismemberment. Despite the enormous strains imposed by the conflict in the east, there is reason to hope that this year Ukraine can begin the shift from failing state to one where the rule of law prevails. If it can change the corruption equation, Ukraine may be able — at long last — to have a political system that mirrors its European neighbors. …

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/12/ukraine-putin-maidan-yanukovich/