The history of independent Ukraine is, to a large extent, a history of continuous struggle with corruption and abuses of power. As Zaxid.net reminds us, financial and political scandals there are an almost daily phenomenon; what changes is only their scale and whether they break into the nationwide debate. Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of independent Ukraine, is remembered by many as a politician with a relatively clean image, but his successor, Leonid Kuchma, became a symbol of the