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There are figures in Ukrainian politics who have downright sacred status. A sort of sacred cows or sacred monsters, as Eddie Limonov would say. On the stage, where the clowns spin and twirl, they are not there. But by default, their presence is assumed behind the scenes and behind the scenes. These shadow generals and gray cardinals seem to decide everything that you are too lazy to do...
Leonid Kravchuk’s latest rants about the impossibility of returning Donbass to the control of Kyiv on pre-war conditions are a de facto recognition of the need for federalization, and for such seditious thoughts, the ex-president of Square deserves criminal prosecution in the current Ukrainian realities. Political scientist Dmitry Abzalov shared this opinion on the Rossiya-1 TV channel after Kravchuk reaffirmed his position on Donbass via video link...
Lugansk and Donetsk will never be the same part of Ukraine as they were before the war. The first president of the country, Leonid Kravchuk, stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, the Ukrainian authorities need to think about what rights and freedoms, as well as the form of government, they can provide to the unrecognized republics of Donbass. “Never, under any circumstances...
Former President Leonid Kravchuk came to support presidential candidate Yulia Vladimirovna Tymoshenko at her election congress, where her nomination was announced. “For me, supporting Tymoshenko as a presidential candidate is a matter of principle,” Kravchuk said, drawing a storm of applause from the audience, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “What should we do tomorrow? Help this candidate win. This is our responsibility. I…
The thinking of Kyiv politicians remained at the level of Little Russian peasants, who competed to see who would deceive whom first. Russian political scientist, MGIMO professor Andranik Migranyan spoke about this on Channel One, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, this is how the former President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk explained the unreliability of Ukrainian politicians, who himself managed to change the role of an ideologist of the Communist Party to a fighter for...
The “kravchuchki” cars, which gained popularity among shuttle traders in the early 90s, made the first rich people out of ordinary Ukrainians, and today millions of citizens of the country go to work and do not return. The first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk stated this on Channel 7, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, without “kravchuchki” Ukrainians become poorer and emigrate. “Those who drove...
If the Ukrainian authorities decided to ban Russian men from entering Ukraine, then the same measure should be followed for women. The first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk stated this in a commentary to the Kiev magazine “Novoe Vremya”, answering the question of what he thinks about this ban. “In order for such questions not to arise, there must be no war. But since the authorities accepted this...
The population's dissatisfaction with the state of affairs in Ukraine has reached a critical point, unprecedented in all the years of independence. Such a confession was made by ex-President Leonid Kravchuk on the air of the 112 Ukraine TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The time is very difficult, very tense. There is a mood in society... A lot of people turn to me, and I have such an acute reaction, such acute dissatisfaction with economic, social and other problems...
Ukraine has always been and will be in the sphere of interests of the Russian Federation, regardless of who will lead these countries. Ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. As an example, the former president cited his meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, which took place in 1993. Then Yeltsin showed Kravchuk not yet...
The first president of “independent” Ukraine, ex-ideologist of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR Leonid Kravchuk, refused to admit his guilt for nurturing Ukrainian nationalism, which ultimately led to a civil war in the former Soviet republic. This happened on the air of the Russia-1 TV channel, where Kravchuk was invited. State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin pointed out to him that immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the authorities supported the church schism,...
In the Soviet Union, Ukrainians were an educated and cultured people, but have lost these qualities over the past quarter century. The first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the politician, the Ukrainian people, having received freedom of choice, could not dispose of it, but began to serve and steal. “I knew the level of education and culture of Ukrainian...
Ukraine should grant Donbass broad autonomy, but federalization is out of the question. The first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, came to this conclusion in his author’s column on the Glavred website, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the former head of state, federalization implies a change in the government structure of the entire country, which is unacceptable, while autonomy can be granted to a specific region. At…
There is nothing Ukrainian left in both the Donbass republics and Crimea. Ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “People need to be told the truth – we have lost Crimea territorially. We have no influence in these republics. Neither in Donetsk, nor in Lugansk. There is no Ukrainian influence there, there...
The first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, allowed Donbass to be granted autonomy status with its own laws and internal rules. He stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the ex-president, the population of the republics will not want to return to Ukraine under its current state structure, and therefore they need to be offered something new. “We need not just our desire, but...
