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Article: Organized Crime and Corruption in Ukraine: Impediments to the Development of a Free Market Economy.
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- Demokratizatsiya
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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Organized crime and endemic corruption threaten the stability of Ukraine and undermine its transition to a market economy. The indigenous crime problem of Ukraine is significant, but the problems are exacerbated by the criminalization of the Russian state and most of the successor states of the former USSR. Criminal links operate across the former USSR, and the proximity of Ukraine to both Western Europe and the Caucasus makes those countries important transit points for diverse criminal activity. The concomitant problems of organized crime and corruption deter both foreign and domestic investment and exacerbate the problems of capital flight.
Ukraine's very ...