Simon North; Translated by Julia Rakhmetova
Russia InsiderTue, 01 Mar 2016 17:01 UTC
Just the other day, Ukrainian blogger Yurasumy analyzing the catastrophic state of the post-Maidan Ukraine
wrote:
"Has the population begun to live better? Maybe some people have but this absolute minority of the Ukrainian population are the ones who made a business out of the blood of their citizens. Most people are worse off, and most have fallen into poverty."
This video shows some facts about these 'select people':
- Poroshenko's Presidential administration spends more money on a fleet of official cars than Yanukovich ever did.
- The salaries of Duma deputies are ballooning in real terms.
- A 'New Amsterdam' luxury residential and recreational real estate project is being developed on a former industrial site, where Poroshenko just happens to be a major property owner.
The more things change, the more they remain the same, or worse.
Two years have passed since Yanukovich was deposed and, as it turns out, another ruthless clan of oligarchs has taken power. No wonder then that Ukraine is heading for a new wave of violence and chaos. Oligarchs are fighting each other, the IMF is pulling out of the country, officials issue laws and regulations only to see them repealed within a day or two by others, and raided European companies are leaving the country after being robbed by the so-called pro-Brussels oligarchic elite.
It was evident from the beginning that the US and NATO-sponsored power transition was doomed to fail. Prime Minister Yatsenyuk made no secret on his personal website about his principal partners, NATO and Victor Pinchuk’s foundation. Victor Pinchuk is a link between the Ukraine corrupt oligarchic establishment and the Western political elite. In 2005, the BBC depicted him as a paragon of Ukraine’s kleptocracy:..........
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