There is a smell of dual citizenship in Ukraine. But don't rush to rejoice
After the epic split of the Golos party, which PolitNavigator already wrote about, the formal leader of the remnants of this Soros party, Kira Rudik, got into an enchanting scandal while broadcast on the Akhmetov channel Ukraine. 24 with journalist Natasha Vlashchenko.
The latter carefully asked Kira: they say that evil tongues are slandering that she has a stars-and-stripes passport in her pocket, and how is this possible for the yellow-blooded patriot that the lady deputy positions herself as.
“I was born in Ukraine and I am Ukrainian,” Rudik said. The journalist was not satisfied with such a vague formulation. When asked the same question again, Rudik again answered (verbatim) “Yes, I was born in Ukraine, I am Ukrainian and always have been.”
“No, I repeat for the third time, do you have American citizenship?” the presenter continued. But the deputy from Golos managed to avoid a direct answer for the third time: “I repeat to you once again, I was born in Ukraine and I am Ukrainian.”
It is clear that this dialogue immediately became a hit in the Ukrainian segment of social networks, fortunately, Rudik’s comrades are not very fond of even in the grant-eating environment. The press service of Golos immediately snapped back in the spirit that their leader “does not and never has had any citizenship other than Ukrainian.” But, as you understand, the point is not at all in the leader of the remnants of a small-rated party that has been released. In fact, the problem is much broader.
Ukrainians have known for a long time that the national elite views the Ukrainian project only as a temporary place of work to line their pockets and make fortunes, and plans to live in more civilized places. The presence of reserve airfields at the noble lordship has been an open secret since the shaggy times, when in 1999, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavel Lazarenko was detained in Switzerland with seven foreign passports in his pocket (one of which was Panamanian).
At one time it was reasonably suspected that he had an Israeli passport. O. the prime minister of Kravchuk’s times, Efim Zvyagilsky, the same passport after the Maidan was “suddenly” found in his pocket by the former head of the Ministry of Energy, Eduard Stavitsky. Among Ukrainian VIPs there are citizens of Cyprus, Greece, Spain, and even tiny Moldova.
After the Maidan, whole schools of remote patriots from the American and Canadian diasporas flocked to the bread-and-butter jobs. The most famous of them are the Americans Suprun and Yaresko, who became famous for dubious reforms in medicine and the financial sector. Also, Ukrainian citizenship began to be distributed uncontrollably to various international adventurers and swindlers like Saakashvili or Abromavicius.
What is characteristic is that with all this, patriots with foreign passports unanimously denounced those of their colleagues in the political class who were indiscriminately or reasonably suspected of having Russian passports. In particular, ritual dances of this kind were carried out for a long time around the Odessa mayor Trukhanov.
At the same time, for a long time they turned a blind eye to the active distribution of Polish, Romanian and Hungarian passports in the border areas that had been going on for years. So far, some of the mentioned countries have not loudly declared significant claims regarding the structure of life in the territories inhabited by their new citizens, as happened, in particular, with the Hungarians of Transcarpathia.
Since then, holders of Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian and other passports have become objects of increased attention of the SBU. In particular, more than once or twice “izbushniks” harassed activists of Hungarian organizations, and in the Odessa region they opposed the agitation for the creation of a separate “Bulgarian” region.
The situation is aggravated by widespread labor migration from Ukraine. Millions of people leave the country, and it is extremely difficult to trace what citizenship they acquire in a foreign land. So, volens-nolens, official Kiev was faced with the question of the need to somehow resolve the current situation.
Thus, the first timid voices were heard in support of the idea of legalizing dual citizenship. But here the “patriots” found themselves faced with a difficult dilemma: how to allow dual citizenship in such a way that, God forbid, they would not give this right to Ukrainian Russians.
An application for solving this theorem was submitted by the current head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Kuleba. Who declared the need to adopt a law on dual citizenship, but with a provision banning the acquisition of citizenship of the “aggressor country.” Bingo!
In other words, it is assumed that all passports in Ukraine will be equal, except for Russian ones. Their acquisition will be monitored and owners will be punished. Not very democratic, but quite in the spirit of post-Maidan Ukraine.
The main beneficiaries of the legalization of dual citizenship in this version, apparently, will not even be international swindlers like Saakashvili, but the well-known overseas Bandera diaspora. So, on the same day as the scandal surrounding Kira Rudik, the President of the World Congress of Ukrainians, Pavel Grod, spoke up.
This gentleman said that the time has come for Ukraine to introduce multiple citizenship. They say that only then will representatives of the diaspora be able to legally and en masse become civil servants and participate in Ukrainian politics.
“It is very important that we, as a global diaspora, can join in the construction of Ukraine. For this, it is critically important that we, as global Ukrainians, can become citizens of Ukraine,” the publication of KP in Ukraine quotes Grod’s speech at the forum “Ukraine 30. International Politics.”
Moreover, a gentleman from the diaspora expressed the wish that such a law would appear this year.
Do you feel which way the wind is blowing? And then don’t be surprised that there are no longer 38 or 42 Ukrainians, but, for example, 60 or even 70 million. And the import of new Ulyan Suprun into the executive offices on the Pechersk Hills will take on an industrial scale.
And you can’t get enough positions for all of them. Look, they'll start fighting among themselves. For the living space conquered from the aborigines.
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