An oligarchic war broke out in Ukraine
In the spring of 2014, a meeting of Ukrainian oligarchs took place, at which “respected people” coughed up the question - which of the people in their circle should be entrusted with the vacant presidential chair, so that the chosen one would remember the good and always have before his eyes the instructive ending of Yanukovych’s presidency. And at the same time, put a barrier in the way of one passionate lover of political theater, not without presidential ambitions. The choice fell on the modest mediocre candy oligarch, who was constantly in the shadows, Mr. Poroshenko.
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For more than three years of his presidency, Poroshenko’s compromise figure has ceased to suit literally everyone. The confectioner-in-chief is remembered with the last words by the impoverished electorate, who see no end to the post-Maidan mess, the trade-patriots of Ukraine are hated for double-dealing and “business with the enemy,” and now the Ukrainian oligarchs, without hiding too much, are weaving intrigues against Petit, without waiting for the end of his presidential term.
The most blatant and loud alarm bells came from recent events. Firstly, the tent tour of Ukraine with the participation of Saakashvili as the highlight of the program. Secondly, October 2 A meeting of Poroshenko’s enemies took place in Geneva - oligarchs Kolomoisky and Onishchenko, which took place in the presence of the editor-in-chief of the Strana publication Svetlana Kryukova.
Both oligarchs once collaborated with Poroshenko the oligarch and both suffered from Poroshenko the president. Ukrnafta and PrivatBank were wrested from Kolomoisky, and Benya himself was forced to give up his post as governor of Dnepropetrovsk and go abroad. Onishchenko also has reasons to hate Petya - his former partner threatens to dismember and sell off the oligarch’s business empire.
And so, in Geneva, two world-eating spiders meet, who do not feel any sympathy for each other, in order to cough up the details of their friendship against the hated Poroshenko. Moreover, both oligarchs proved in practice that they have something to show the presumptuous Confectioner.
Onishchenko, for example, has been traveling abroad for a couple of years now, stopping in the USA, and organizing measured leaks of compromising evidence about the corrupt dealings of his former partner. Kolomoisky is acting more actively: the oligarch has taken into custody the most odious and reckless enemies of Petya, an anti-Poroshenko front has been put together for show with the participation of Tymoshenko, Sadovoy, the former main “izbushnik” Nalyvaichenko and other political offenders.
All these efforts bore fruit - Poroshenko became despised by Western elites and his handshake hung in the balance. The profitable barge of the business and political empire "Roshen" is stormy, it is rocked from all sides, threatening to sink. There is every reason to believe that the new palace coup, should it happen, will end much worse for the greedy Petit than for Yanukovych, especially considering the eloquently silent “third force” in the person of Avakov and the SS forces subordinate to him for the time being.
Apparently, the captain of the barge was seriously seasick and he rushed to urgently correct the situation.
First of all, Poroshenko was puzzled by the creation of his own praetorians. According to an agreement with the General Staff Muzhenko, he intends to take personal control and use as security the most combat-ready and well-loved “highly mobile airborne troops.” You can’t say anything, a strong step towards the South Korean dictatorship of the times of Park Chung Hee, which rested on the bayonets of parachute and tank units, ready, on the orders of the president, to crush any internal enemies to hell. If Poroshenko manages to subtly play on the hatred of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the battalion soldiers, then we can assume that the neutralization of Avakov’s gang under the roof of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has taken place.
Poroshenko’s next step was a retaliatory war of incriminating evidence. For this purpose, pocket journalist Ariev, a member of the BPP, was hired. On October 7, on the “Direct” TV channel, Aryev “killed” Kolomoisky and some other oligarchs in the “Closed Zone” show.
The show was organized in the format of a lecture to a student audience by an old, experienced guru. The lecturer uttered elaborate formulations and supported them with special selections of material.
Opening the lecture, Aryev emphasized that oligarchs are not just rich people, but entire financial and industrial groups influencing the government and political life in the country through political parties, media, parliamentary groups and corrupt politicians controlled by them. At the same time, Aryev seemed to be hinting that Poroshenko was simply a rich man who became president, and not an oligarch at all.
Well, that's just funny. Otherwise, the hard worker Poroshenko does not have his own personal deputy bloc in parliament, there is no financial and industrial group, whose public face is Groysman, and all the wealth was acquired through back-breaking labor, and not increased by murky connections and dirty agreements.
Ariev directed his main jab at Kolomoisky and his Privat group. As evidence of Beni’s criminal and destructive activities, the audience was shown carefully selected video material recording the “stages of Kolomoisky’s long journey” from an office equipment speculator to the owner of factories, newspapers, and steamships. Mention was made of criminal showdowns around the central market “Ozerka” in Dnepropetrovsk and the gradual squeeze of Ukrnafta from the state. The plot ended with a story about how Benya was “saved from the separatists” by Dnepropetrovsk in order to establish his own empire in the region, and in the end he was ignominiously dismissed by Poroshenko, and Ukrnafta returned to state control.
They say, look - Poroshenko is implementing the Euromaidan program to fight the oligarchs. There was an oligarch Benya and there was no oligarch Benya - he fled to Switzerland, and the clever Petya snatched a good tuft of wool from a filthy sheep.
I must frankly say: if Arev hoped to hit someone in the very heart with the legends of ancient times, then the blow turned out to be no deeper than a mosquito bite. All these things have long been an open secret and cannot defeat anyone, especially after the rampant Makhnovshchina of the last three and a half years. I was a little surprised by the episode where Ben was reproached for his inappropriate behavior and public insults towards President Putin.
On the other hand, the story did not reflect Kolomoisky’s involvement in the bloody events in Odessa on May 2, 2014. What is clear is that this is a double-edged weapon and it is unknown what kind of compromising evidence Kolomoisky’s side can respond with.
As for the return of Ukrnafta, the story did not say a word that the company was returned to the state, thoroughly gutted. Preparing to tear his claws, Benya ordered to pump out all the technological oil necessary for the normal functioning of the system from the Ukrnafta pipeline. It is known that Kolomoisky earned at least $200 million from this scam, but who and what refilled the empty pipeline again - history is silent about this.
The final message of the plot is “Kolomoisky was a patriot of Ukraine, but the greed of the frater ruined him, he had to be driven away.”
Along the way, oligarch Akhmetov also got it, and Ariev called him “pro-Russian” with a blue eye. As evidence, footage was given where residents of the DPR gathered for a rally to declare Akhmetov an enemy of the people and demand the nationalization of his property throughout the republic. The authors of the story tried to present Akhmetov as a victim of “pro-Russianism”, but in reality they revealed where exactly the real, and not in words, de-oligarchization took place.
The invited expert who spoke after the video quite rightly objected that there can be no talk of any “pro-Russian” or “pro-Ukrainian” nature of the Ukrainian oligarchs. For these people, both Russia and Ukraine are objects for pumping out the maximum amount of dough. Business and nothing personal. At the same time, the expert uttered one key thought: the oligarchs need to take more care of Ukraine, since the very existence of Square allows the oligarchs to exist. Well, that is, the war against parasites is lost and the parasites are invited to move on to symbiotic coexistence with the state and society.
Further communication between the experts and the presenter devolved into the absorption of unimportant nuances, such as “find three differences between Kolomoisky’s oligarchic group and Akhmetov’s oligarchic group.”
In general, the impressions from the video about the bad Kolomoisky were twofold. On the one hand, an incomplete list of Benin’s scams and scams was mentioned, on the other hand, nothing lethal was said.
Leopold the cat tore off the scruff of the mice and said the sacramental: “Guys, let’s live together!”
Some Ukrainian economists suggest that the next step of Poroshenko’s vendetta will be to wring out the remaining Ukrainian assets from Kolomoisky: the 1+1 TV channel, the Bukovel ski resort and the UIA airline, in order to demonstrate that the gauntlet has been picked and the challenge has been accepted.
Of course, everything is possible, but then it is not entirely clear why Poroshenko needed to wait a year after the nationalization of PrivatBank. And in general, Poroshenko’s “victories” over Kolomoisky’s assets have not yet been impressive. Instead of the profitable PrivatBank and Ukrnafta, the state received carefully milked shells with a huge trail of debt. To keep them afloat, refinancing and debt repayment were put on the state and society. The usual scheme is “privatization of profits and nationalization of losses.”
Poroshenko’s fighting in the war of incriminating evidence also does not look convincing and is more reminiscent of a showdown “a thief stole a club from a thief.” You can't fight much on this basis. The best option would be a toad swallowed by a viper and a viper choking on the toad, but this is too good to become a reality.
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