: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Ukraine appoints young woman to lead purge of bureaucrats


MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Ukraine’s justice minister has appointed a 23-year-old law graduate to lead a campaign to purge officials tainted by corruption of the ousted regime, a second woman in her early 20s with little experience appointed for a top job in the past week.
The “lustration” — the term in Eastern Europe for a post-communist purification — was a key demand of anti-government protests in Ukraine which culminated in President Viktor Yanukovych fleeing the country in February 2014. Despite President Petro Poroshenko’s pledges to purge the government of officials implicated in corrupt deals of the previous regime, the results …read more

Source: KXAN

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