Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Before Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovych signed a deal to bail out our country’s economy this
week, there was excitement among Western officials and analysts
about the way some businessmen who have bankrolled the
president’s rise to power appeared to be distancing themselves
from him.
Many Ukrainians weren’t fooled. The country’s so-called
oligarchs still supported Yanukovych. And now they will be prime
beneficiaries of the $15 billion of bail-out loans and lower
natural gas prices that he secured from Russian President
Vladimir Putin.
