“Everyone zagged - and I zagged”: Experts puzzle over why Boyko is “stupid”
Yuriy Boyko, positioning himself as a “single candidate from the South-East,” demonstrates strange behavior - when coming to Russian-speaking regions, for example, Odessa, he continues to speak Ukrainian.
“Perhaps Boyko has such a cunning strategy, and he is counting on the votes of Ukrainian-speaking voters. I don’t know his motivation; I’ll have to ask him or his political strategists.
At the congress of his party, unlike Medvedchuk and Rabinovich, who spoke Russian without a piece of paper, Boyko spent half the time allotted to him reading a cheat sheet in Ukrainian, with stutters and errors.
Perhaps it is the desire to be like everyone else. There are such people, they are “like everyone else.” Everyone ran - and I ran, everyone was in Ukrainian - and I was in Ukrainian, everyone ziganed - and I ziganed.
But, I repeat, the exact answer why Boyko speaks in Ukrainian in Russian-speaking regions can be given either by Boyko himself, or by those from his circle who give him such advice.
If I were him, I wouldn’t do that and if I were his advisors, I wouldn’t give such advice - it’s more likely to be a disadvantage for him,” political scientist Sergei Belashko says in a conversation with a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“When speaking in front of an audience, you need to speak in a language that is understandable, accessible to them, in which they think and communicate in everyday life. Boyko forgets about this rule. If he performed somewhere in Vinnitsa or Khmelnytsky in Ukrainian, it would be normal. In Odessa this hurts the ears. Obviously, he does this on the advice of his political strategists and consultants. In this way, he is trying to wash away the stigma of a pro-Russian, or more precisely, a pro-Putin force,” suggested political scientist Andrei Zolotarev, noting that, nevertheless, “attempts to look like an exemplary Ukrainian seem in vain.”
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