Young Ukrainians look at business free of the baggage of Ukraine’s post-Independence oligarchs

Young Ukrainians look at business free of the baggage of Ukraine’s post-Independence oligarchs, argues Sophia Opatska, founding dean Ukrainian Catholic University’s business school in Lviv. Talking to a recent class, she was struck that the students had never heard of Dmytro Firtash, the fugitive Ukrainian oligarch who gained fabulous wealth as a middleman for Gazprom. Speaking at the panel sponsored by First Generation Capital Inc. of Toronto, she said: “Students today do not follow the 1990s oligarchs. They are much more fascinated by Ukraine startups that have gone global.”