Crime, politics and business in 1990s Ukraine

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 195-210

  Kuzio, Taras ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Leonid Kuchma; Oligarchs; Organized crime and corruption; Rinat Akhmetov; Ukrainian politics; Viktor Yanukovych; Yevhen Shcherban; Yulia Tymoshenko

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902328956     PISSN: 0967067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2014.04.011     Document Type: Article

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