Happy six-year anniversary in Hive. You and I chose Hive almost at the same time and I hope to be here for many more years and enjoy it.
Impressive numbers about the richness and importance of Ukraine! I knew you were a special country with great potential but I thought you were somehow following the Russian model because I read about the wealth being amassed by a few oligarchs. Probably not so and even if it is so I hope that now the situation is settled.
In my opinion, there is only one category in which Russia is the undisputed leader - the creation of fakes.
It certainly is!
Looking forward to the good news... Slava Ukraina!
In fact, since the collapse of the USSR, we were following Soviet model because it can't be changed in 1 day. And all this time we were trying to move away from the Soviet heritage. Russia, in turn, did everything to keep Ukraine under its influence from the very beginning of Ukrainian independence. They had a lot of money to bribe Ukrainian officials and lobby for the necessary laws (or boycott others), because Moscow kept all Soviet assets, including our money in banks as citizens.
And yes, much of what I mentioned belongs to the oligarchs. We have rich resources, but we need money to extract them. The oligarchs have money, and a large part of them is obtained from cooperation with Russia, legal and not. There is nothing new here, Russian money settles in the pockets of high-ranking officials in Austria, Hungary, etc. These funds influence decisions regarding Russia, but these countries themselves were able to build a democratic and legal state. And we are still on this path. I very much hope that after the war there will be huge changes.
I think there will be big changes, otherwise, if the favorable moment is missed, it will happen like in Romania, which has missed a lot of favorable moments and we are ranked very low in the EU.
I think that it is not important what position the country occupies in the EU, but how the people who live there feel about themselves
Romania is a beautiful country with an interesting history.
I managed to visit some historical places and see incredible landscapes.
I met many friendly people.
And, your country has another plus: you are in the EU and you are in NATO. This situation plays a big role in political schedules