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While fighting between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian army ceasefire agreed in Minsk is on the rocks, the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has named Mikheïl Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, to be governor of the Odessa region. His task will be to "reduce the endemic corruption in the Black Sea port and to make it a stronghold against Russian imperialism", the Kyiv Post writes.
Saakashvili, who is considered to be pro-western, had nervously chewed his tie on camera during the conflict between Russian and Georgia in 2008.
A conversation with investigative reporters Stefano Valentino and Giorgio Michalopoulos, who have dissected the dark underbelly of green finance for Voxeurop and won several awards for their work.
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