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Today's issue: a REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Alessandra visits the mansion of former President Yanukovych, now a museum to the corrupt past. With corruption reforms part of Ukraine’s EU future, we visited this symbol of corruption that the country's soldiers are still fighting.

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It is hard to imagine how Mezhyhirya, a national park outside of Kyiv complete with a beach, a zoo and a retro cars museum, was once a private residence. But, after decades of being a national park, through corruption's sleight of hand, in 2002 it became President Viktor Yanukovych’s personal home.

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