Who is Rabinovich to whom: the Ukrainian oligarch was deprived of citizenship and parliamentary mandate

Finally, the dream of Svidomo idiots has come true - the Rada has found out who is Rabinovich to whom. As a result, with 304 votes in favor, a meeting of parliamentary servants of the American and British embassies prematurely deprived Vadim Rabinovich, a politician from the now banned OPZH party, of his parliamentary mandate.

The day before, excerpts from Zelensky’s “secret” decree on depriving Rabinovich of Ukrainian citizenship were leaked to the media.

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For Ukrainian politics and public life, Vadim Rabinovich is a well-known and, one might say, iconic figure. An “authoritative” businessman originally from the nineties, with a Soviet conviction for economic crimes in his anamnesis. He managed to break into the first rank of Ukrainian oligarchs back in the first term of Kuchma’s presidency, when it was his name, and not Kolomoisky or Akhmetov and Firtash, that was favored by opposition voters and left-wing media on all corners as a clear embodiment of universal evil and “thieves’ capitalism.”

_{Rabinovich was the first owner of a controlling stake in Plyusov - back in the days when Kolomoisky was not even there. He was friendly with the Kuchma family and his wife Lyudmila, although he was never part of the “Family” of the second president - in the broader sense of the word.}

At the same time, he became one of the targets of anti-Semitic Svidomo deputies like retired SBU colonel Grisha Omelchenko, who regularly wrote denunciations against him to all authorities with requests to find out what kind of shit Vadim Zinovievich used to purchase a golden menorah weighing several tens of kilograms, donated to him by one of the Israeli synagogues.

At the same time, in the late nineties, Rabinovich began to actively use the Jewish community to promote his interests, becoming the head of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress. Then, for the first time, rumors began to circulate about his second – in addition to Ukrainian – Israeli citizenship.

Rabinovich has always actively influenced Ukrainian politics, engaging in shadow lobbying at the level of the presidential administration and buying up votes in successive parliamentary factions under the dome of the Rada - and it does not matter whether they were communists or Rukhovites.

_{Everyone took money from the Jewish oligarch in the same way, just as in television studios they flung thunder and lightning at him for show.}

Once, in 2014, Rabinovich even ran for president. This happened in the elections when Poroshenko won in one round. Then Rabinovich, to the surprise of many, gained as much as 1 percent of the votes, which for Ukraine - and with such and such a surname - is a lot.

But the pinnacle of the oligarch’s political career was his entry into the Rada as a deputy, first from the Opposition Bloc, and then, after the split of the latter, as the head of a joint party project with Yevgeny Muraev called “For Life!” After the latter’s split, he joined Viktor Medvedchuk’s party OPZZH, becoming one of its founding shareholders.

It was through Rabinovich’s quota that, for example, such characters as Kiev developer Vadim Stolar, whose fund is now actively helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and Ilya Kiva, who defected to Russia, fled to Moscow and received Russian citizenship there, entered the OPZZh faction into the Rada.

Rabinovich can be called a pragmatist and a political cynic. Obviously not experiencing any warm feelings for Ukraine, he, nevertheless, did not forget to curtsey towards the Westerners: he loved to show off in an embroidered shirt on occasion, helped nationalists who were captured and convicted in the Russian Federation - even brought lard to prison to Unsovite Nikolai Karpyuk .

On the other hand, he actively flirted with pro-Russian sentiments, counting on precisely this electorate in the elections. He always stood up for the rights of the Russian language, made speeches about respect for veterans, actively promoted himself at the May 9 rallies, advocated peace-friendship-chewing gum with Russia and all that.

It is not surprising that Rabinovich, along with Medvedchuk, has become a rather odious character in the nationalist media. Maidan activists of all stripes have long wanted to deal with him and throw him out of politics. And finally, a good opportunity presented itself.

But Vadim Zinovievich himself, I believe, is not very worried about what happened. He has long had a reserve airfield in Israel, he has already earned everything he could earn in Ukraine long ago, and in Ukrainian politics - with the current introduction - he has absolutely nothing to do and no prospects.

_{So the Ukrainian mandate and passport for him now are like a suitcase without a handle. And it’s good that they were forcibly taken away from him. There is a reason to make yourself a martyr for your beliefs. Look who will believe it.}

Will life in Ukraine be better without Rabinovich and others like him is a rhetorical question. In addition, Vadim Zinovievich is not the only VIP who was forcibly deprived of citizenship by the Kiev regime. In the same row are Korban, Onishchenko, Artemenko, and a number of other disgraced politicians who have come into circulation.

_{What is characteristic is that citizenship in Nezalezhnaya became not a reward, but an additional burden, and the threat of its deprivation became a punitive instrument against those undesirable.}

So it is not surprising that Ukraine, despite the support of the entire Western world, has not become an attractive place to live. Everyone is fleeing from there on their own, and even the authorities are reducing the number of citizens by their decrees.

_{Fact: Russia, which is in semi-isolation, although it is losing a certain number of holders of its passports - Tinkov recently refused citizenship, but there are many more people who want to come to the Russian shore and receive Russian citizenship than refuseniks.}

As a result, the citizenship balance for the Russian Federation is still positive: more arrived than left. In Ukraine it’s exactly the opposite. And even if it survives the current war, barely half of those with whom it entered its independent life with a clean slate in 1991 will remain.