The difference is that the Ukrainian nation got rid of their governing crooks by literally smoking them out. The Russian defunct nation gives their crook-in-chief 70% approval rating.
Doesn’t matter. The author was trying to claim that the Ukraine’s economy would grow because it was crime-free compared to Moscow...
...when the reality is that the Ukraine’s economy won’t grow because it is more corrupt than Moscow.
That’s what matters.
Failing to understand that corruption means that the author’s overall analysis is doomed to fail.