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