Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared his personal income for the first time since the outbreak of war with Russia, as part of his effort to increase transparency in his government.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared his personal income for the first time since the outbreak of war with Russia, as part of his effort to increase transparency in his government.

In 2021, the year before Russia invaded Ukraine, Zelenskiy and his family reported income of 10.8 million hryvnia ($285,000), down 12 million hryvnia from the previous year, even as his income was boosted by the sale of $142,000 of government bonds, according to a statement on his website.

In 2022, the first year of the Russian invasion, the Zelenskiy family’s income fell further to 3.7 million hryvnia as he earned less income from renting real estate he owned because of the hostilities.

Even as the war allowed Ukrainian officials to withhold revealing sensitive personal information, Zelenskiy pushed to make them publicly declare assets. Increasing transparency and tackling graft are necessary for his country to ensure continued financial aid from its western allies, even as more than $100 billion of funds are held up due to political maneuvering inside US and EU.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    according to one study

    🙄

    Neoliberalism is the ideology of Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, both Clintons, and Biden, to name a few obvious examples.

    • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.netEnglish
      22·
      10 months ago

      According to one study 🙄

      A study that samples 148 different articles, I’m sure you reviewed a good selection of them before you came to a different conclusion than the study did, right?

      It’s not like you just named 6 very different politicians and claimed they’re all the same because “neoliberal”, that would be exactly my point.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        10 months ago

        A study that samples 148 different articles

        Out of probably thousands if not tens of thousands available. Who did the study anyway? CAP?

        I’m sure you reviewed a good selection of them before you came to a different conclusion than the study did, right?

        No, I didn’t waste my time studying a study that says neoliberalism is never described. Partially because I myself DID provide a nom-exhaustive but definitely not non-existent description of it earlier in this very thread.

        It’s not like you just named 6 very different politicians

        Bernie, The Squad and Katie Porter are also very different. Still all adherents to progressivism

        claimed they’re all the same

        Nope. That’s not what mentioning examples of different adherents of the same overall ideology is.

        that would be exactly my point.

        That I’m claiming that all neoliberals are identical? Congratulations on being even more wrong than your original false assumptions 🤦

        • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.netEnglish
          12·
          10 months ago

          Who did the study anyway? CAP?

          Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID) is an interdisciplinary journal that addresses issues concerning political, social, economic, and environmental change in local, national, and international contexts.

          The journal has a tradition of presenting critical and innovative analytical perspectives that challenge prevailing orthodoxies. It publishes original research articles on all world regions and is open to all theoretical and methodical approaches.

          https://www.scipublications.org/report/impact-factor-of-Studies-in-Comparative-International-Development.html

          I didn’t waste my time studying a study

          If checking before you spout something incorrect is “wasting your time”, then why should anyone take what you say seriously?

          It took me way less long to check than it did to write this comment, who’s wasting time here?