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Post-Soviet Saviours? Ukraine, Russia and the Dark Side of the War against Corruption

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DOI10.1177/2041905818764704
AuthorAlexander Clarkson
Published date01 March 2018
Date01 March 2018
26 POLITICAL INSIGHT • APRIL 2018
As the ongoing conict between
Ukraine and Russia drags
on into its fth year, the one
political issue that seems to
unite both societies is anger with endemic
corruption. Since 2000, opinion polls have
put corruption near the top of the list of
issues that most concern the public in both
countries. Two decades after the fall of the
Soviet Union, dysfunctional state institutions
and deep social injustice have entrenched
corrupt practices throughout its successor
Post-Soviet Saviours?
Ukraine, Russia and the
Dark Side of the War
against Corruption
In Ukraine and Russia corruption is endemic. While Putin is still
f‌irmly in place, opposition to graft fuelled the Ukrainian revolution.
But the focus on corruption as the primary cause of the political crisis
in both countries masks a deeper p olitical dysfunction. Alexander
Clarkson reports.
states. Public resentment at how graft at
the highest levels of government remains
largely unpunished, continues to have the
potential to fuel popular rejection of an
already brittle political status quo in both
societies.
Corrupted politics
In Russia, signicant levels of public disquiet
over the persistence of corruption lingered,
even as a political equilibrium put in place
by Vladimir Putin's power vertical limited the
socially disruptive eects of graft. As Vladimir
Political Insight April 2018.indd 26 19/02/2018 11:19

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