Bloomberg in recent weeks has published numerous stories about Ukraine, including a July 23 piece by Volodymyr Verbyany about how candidates from President Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People Party ousted oligarchs, celebrities and well-connected relatives from the legislature.
Zelensky has pledged to revoke automatic immunity from prosecution for lawmakers, a perk pro-democracy activists say has filled the assembly with figures whose main motive is to avoid jail — Bloomberg, July 23, 2019 (Wedding Photographer Ousts Tycoon as Ukraine Purges Oligarchs in Vote)
Servant of the People representatives do not appear worried about the party’s widespread lack of knowledge about how to make laws and run the government isn’t a problem. It has hired teachers from the Kyiv School of Economics to train its new lawmakers to start at the end of the week, according to the article.
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