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After the revolution: Tackling 'grand political corruption' in Ukraine

Can civic activists fix Ukraine's entrenched cronyism and corruption?

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Protester gives the victory sign during a rally in Independence Square, Kiev in February 2014. Credit: Efrem Lukatsky / AP/Press
Protester gives the victory sign during a rally in Independence Square, Kiev in February 2014. Credit: Efrem Lukatsky / AP/Press

Protester gives the victory sign during a rally in Independence Square, Kiev in February 2014. Credit: Efrem Lukatsky / AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.During 2014 Ukraine revolution, Darya Kaleniuk was not protesting on the central square in Kiev alongside thousands of others.

She was in an office not far away – poring over spreadsheets and mapping money flows hidden behind corporate structures to find proof of the corruption fuelling the protests.