Is this man the puppet master of Ukraine’s new president or an overhyped bogeyman?

22 April 2019 — RT

Is this man the puppet master of Ukraine’s new president or an overhyped bogeyman?

Igor Kolomoisky © Sputnik / Mikhail Markiv; Volodymyr Zelenskiy © REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko 

It doesn’t actually matter if Ukrainian-Israeli billionaire Igor Kolomoisky is the real power behind Volodymyr Zelensky – the president elect has to get rid of the oligarch if he is to make a break with the country’s corrupt past.

The plots, deceits and conflicts of interest in Ukrainian politics are so transparent and hyperbolic, that to say that novice politician Zelensky was a protégé of his long-time employer was not something that required months of local investigative journalism – it was just out there.

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