Andrei Dligach:
The main problem is that we are weak, we hope that politicians will be able to modernize the country. But we learned in 2013 that every Ukrainian politician is in the Soviet style, when they try to do something good for economic or social progress, they still use their pre-communist standards in policy. Of them. They can not be open about the fact that they do not think they need small and medium enterprises for economic development. "They think that is the right thing to do and it should end there. That is an important part of our economy." And as an economist, I have shown them that the largest segments of the economy in almost every European country are small and medium enterprises. They produce more than 50 to 60% of their country's GDP. For Ukraine, this number is less than 20%, so our next turning point in the 2013-14 war was the revolution of small and medium enterprises. Unfortunately, we did not end the revolution because the oligarchic system and the old-fashioned politicians also gained power in Ukraine.
Full interview https://borderlands.com.ua/podcast/ecomonic-future-ukraine-dligach