NATALIE JARESKO COMMENT

摘要

Ukraine has experienced a devastating sequence of events in recent years, but now, thanks to the new government's reform programme, its citizens can look to a brighter future according to the country's finance minister. When thousands of Ukrainian citizens took to the streets of Kiev during 2014's Revolution of Dignity, they unleashed some of the biggest changes - both good and bad - since the country's independence in 1991. In a short space of time they have seen the removal of a klep-tocratic government, which had more than doubled our national debt; the illegal annexation of Crimea; a devastating invasion by Russia and ongoing conflict; a painful economic recession and financial crisis; the election of the first parliament with a pro-European constitutional majority; and the formation of a new government with an average age of 43 and most ministers coming directly from the private sector.