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Altogether there are some 500 reformist laws on the docket.
The fly in the ointment here is the relationship between Zelenskiy and oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky. The house of former NBU governor Valeriya Gontareva was burnt down in an arson attack in September at the end of a string of attacks on her and her family. Gontareva is responsible for nationalising Kolomoisky’s bank in 2016.
Kolomoisky has been trying to get his bank back, or at least $2bn in compensation. Moreover, bne IntelliNews sources say there is a raft of measures that will benefit Kolomoisky in the works in each of the many sectors he is active in.
It could well be that Zelenskiy is a genuine reformer, but the price of these reforms is he will protect and enrich his benefactor Kolomoisky.
2.0 Politics
2.1 Zelenskiy signs off on Steinmeier Formula deal for Donbas
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has agreed with the other members of the Trilateral Contact Group that oversees the negotiations to end fighting in the Donbas to adopt the so-called Steinmeier formula in an effort to bring the fighting in Ukraine’s eastern region to an end.
During the meeting of the contact group in the Belarusian capital Minsk, all the dialogue participants — Russia, the OSCE, the Ukrainian authorities and the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) — put their signatures on the document, according to Interfax.
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