KIEV: Ukrainian lawmakers bowed Wednesday to International Monetary Fund pressure and shelved a highly-controversial bill that critics feared would have defanged the former Soviet republic’s vital fight against corruption.
The decision to rework legislation that Kiev’s Western allies said was meant to protect top politicians and powerful tycoons was made as an IMF team met with Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman in Kiev.
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