KLANS OF UKRAINE
In our paper, we have identified quasi-stable networks of the most influential Ukrainian oligarch groups with U.S., British and transnational actors. Following the secession from the Soviet Union, patterns of the Ukrainian democratic system have been characterized by the influential power of oligarchs in political processes, media, extracting and manufacturing industries, and finance. This fact translates into the long-lasting cooperation between Western elites and Ukraine’s nouveau riche intending to make their interests part of such interaction. …