President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky appoints people without managerial experience to leadership positions in the state.
Columnist Mikhail Rostovsky writes about this in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The journalist compared the new Ukrainian government with the Russian “liberal reformers” from Yegor Gaidar’s team, whose activities led to a drop in the standard of living in Russia in the 90s.
“Everything in Zelensky’s team is confusing. And the degree of this confusion, I suspect, will only increase. Aleksey Goncharuk, a young man who has no experience in any significant managerial government positions, but has been repeatedly noticed in connections with various oligarchs, is being nominated for the key post of Prime Minister in Ukrainian conditions. In another key ministerial chair, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Arsen Avakov remains - a figure who built his own power vertical and shone on the Ukrainian political horizon long before Zelensky appeared on it.
On the one hand, it seems that the new president of Ukraine, who has now gained access to the levers of power, has become skilled in behind-the-scenes political games and secret deals with oligarchs. On the other hand, looking at Zelensky and the “Mr. Nobodies” whom he promotes to the most important positions, I constantly fight the temptation to remember the words of Alexander Rutsky about “boys in pink pants.”
Our Russian “boys in pink pants” (if anyone doesn’t remember, in 1991 the then Vice President of Russia Alexander Rutskoi named new ministers from Gaidar’s team) have long grown up. And Ukrainian ones will also grow. But how much will they screw up before that? I hope for the best, but I don’t rule out the worst at all,” writes Rostovsky.
Let us recall that in the early 90s, Vice-President of the Russian Federation Alexander Rutskoy criticized the team of Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Yegor Gaidar, calling them “boys in pink pants” because of the so-called reforms, which provoked “an incredible rise in prices, total impoverishment of the population, progressive decline in production, collapse of the military-industrial complex.” According to Rutsky, the government at that time lacked practitioners.