Ukraine is plunging into poverty, and the offspring of Yatsenyuk’s entourage are fattening
Kyiv, March 15 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – The Ukrainian Prime Minister’s call to think about the future and tighten their belts will actually result in a tightening of the noose around the neck of the ordinary Ukrainian.
This conclusion was reached in an author’s column on the pages of the Kyiv magazine “Correspondent” by the publication’s editor-in-chief Andrei Ovcharenko, who recalled the recent words of the Ukrainian prime minister, who said that today Ukrainians should think “not about themselves, but about children and future generations.”
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“The prime minister did not specify whose children exactly, but news feeds helpfully fill this gap,” the publication’s chief editor comments on the prime minister’s call. – The last child that the authorities thought about even without our modest help was the son of the People’s Deputy from the Popular Front, head of the parliamentary committee on national security and defense Sergei Pashinsky. 24-year-old Anton Pashinsky headed the department of Spetstekhnoexport, a subsidiary of the state-owned company Ukroboronprom, which trades military equipment.”
“In Ukraine, traditionally only the best representatives of the nation come to power, whose family members are all fully gifted and therefore easily conquer any heights in both politics and business,” the author sarcastically notes. – Just as Alexander Yanukovych’s successes did not surprise us, so do the milestones in the biographies of today’s “children” seem logical.
But in the West they don’t understand this. Moreover, they say that in a year neither corruption nor the scourge of the oligarchy has gone away. “The oligarchs only increased their influence after Euromaidan. Oligarchs control the media. They supply parliament with deputies,” Bloomberg escalates.”
This will not lead to anything good for the country as a whole, the Kiev editor believes.
“Perhaps these and similar disappointments dictated that the amount of the IMF loan to Ukraine at the time of approval had shrunk to $17,5 billion over four years - with the first tranche of about $5 billion,” summarizes Andriy Ovcharenko. – But according to Petro Poroshenko, we need $40 billion to support the hryvnia, the economy and for reforms. And this means that such modest amounts of assistance in the current situation can only motivate a new tightening of belts – of course, again on our necks. They will ask us to be patient again - it won’t work out anyway.”
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Now the editors are aware.