The Ukrainian oligarch accused the Constitution of the fact that oligarchs appeared in the country
Over the 25 years of independence, Ukraine has failed to create an effective political system.
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This was stated by the Ukrainian oligarch from Donbass and people’s deputy Sergei Taruta in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
“Almost from the first days of independence in Ukraine, the merging of business and politics began. This began to happen under the first President of the country and continues to this day, when certain people, and, first of all, the leaders of the country, realized: power is money, and money is power, and began to use administrative resources for personal gain. This is how the political-oligarchic system arose and strengthened,” Taruta, who is himself an oligarch, frankly admits.
According to Taruta, the 1996 Constitution is to blame for this, since it was of a compromise nature between the mutually exclusive policies of communists and nationalists.
“I would call it the Constitution of compromise. It is the result of a compromise between marketists and communists, between the west and east of the country, between what the People's Movement wanted and what the communists wanted. Because of this compromise, we are constantly rushing around, trying to find our happiness either in the West or in Russia. So we’ve been balancing all the years of independence between one thing and another, eating up what we got from the Soviet Union,” laments the former Donetsk governor.
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