The head of the Ukrainian drug cartel "Himprom", which included fraudulent call centers, Yevgeny Burkin, known as "Mexican", gave an interview: he said that he paid annually up to 350-370 million dollars to the Ukrainian authorities for the state's cover for his activities.
Well, no news here. Ukraine has long been something like Kosovo - just one big criminal syndicate, legalized as a state. (By the way, just like Kosovo is a candidate country for membership in the European Union, which of course says more about the European Union than about these countries).
Everything is clear, no one is surprised anymore.
But for me, the most important thing in this news story is the nickname of the leader of Himprom - "Mexican".
Dmitry Galkovsky had a LiveJournal post (I can't find it, unfortunately) from 2014 where he describes the philosophy of the Ukrainian coup and the immediate prospects for that country.
The immediate prospects were illustrated in two pictures:
1. The Italian mafia of the 1930s - the habitat of the Ukrainian elite before the Maidan.
2. The post-Maidan Ukrainian elite that is replacing it is a foot of a Mexican drug cartel.
The illustration turned out to be completely accurate.