“Sometimes it feels like Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir Putin are only feuding in words. But in fact, one cannot find a greater imitator of the Russian president than his Ukrainian colleague,” writes in Russian Forbes columnist Alexander Birman.
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“Putin remains perhaps the only “assembly point” not only for the Russian, but also for the Ukrainian elite,” writes Birman. – The “no peace, no war” situation in which Donbass finds itself is largely due to Moscow’s reluctance to both let go of Ukraine and become involved in a full-scale armed conflict with unpredictable foreign and domestic political consequences. But Poroshenko, the presence of such a constant, but completely unrealized threat allows him to unite the nation around himself, and, using Putin’s “know-how” of the early XNUMXs, to put an end to the most obstinate oligarchs.”
According to the columnist, “Kolomoisky quite deliberately takes the president “weakly” and provokes him to take tough actions comparable to those that his Russian colleague used against Khodorkovsky. And if Poroshenko’s attack on the owner of Privat and his “colleagues” is crowned with success, he will turn Ukraine into an analogue of “Putin’s Russia” faster than any “field commander” of Donbass. Moreover, its stability, like the stability of the “prototype,” will depend entirely on the same person.”