Ukraine’s Economic Turnaround c. 2000

🫧 Open on Bubbles From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History , by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 56-57: In the fall of 1999, as Yeltsin was getting ready to step down and promote Putin as his successor, the president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma , was preparing to run for a second term. During his first term he had managed to stabilize the Ukrainian economy by launching large-scale privatization and working closely with Western donors, especially the International Monetary Fund. Kuchma h