The Investment Nannies Who Want to Lure Foreign Cash to Ukraine

  • Zelenskiy wants to bring $7 billion of investment in 18 months
  • Lawmakers will consider nanny bill as early as summer
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When it comes to investors, Ukraine is proud to call itself a nanny state.

The Covid-19 crisis is adding to the urgency of plans to lure capital from abroad, giving a spark to an idea first floated by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at Davos: to offer investors with enough cash a dedicated local minder to navigate the former Soviet republic’s often hair-raising bureaucracy.