Volodymyr Zelensky (L), Igor Kolomoisky (R). Click to see full-size image
Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, and the actual decision-maker standing behind Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky apparently is anticipating economic woes in Ukraine during the autumn of 2019. So, he has already started blaming former president Petro Poroshenko’s government for them.
“The National Bank, under the governance of Petro Alekseevich and Hontareva, is now cutting the dollar, artificially strengthening the hryvnia. Despite the fact that the foreign trade balance is negative. They are laying a time bomb that will go off in September-October. When the rate jumps to 30, the new government will be to blame.
The foreign trade balance is negative. Last year it was minus 10 billion, this year it will be no less. How can one increase the national currency exchange rate with such a balance? The question is that there is no currency, and you lower its rate. In this way, they plant a bomb under a new government that does not yet exist. And they think that everyone around is a fool and does not understand what they are doing. You’ll have to sit in jail for that,” Kolomoisky said.
Poroshenko needed a stable hryvnia for the elections in order to show at least the appearance of economic stabilization, for which, among other things, the IMF loans were spent. Kolomoisky sees that the consequences of this policy will primarily hit Zelensky and his entourage of the ‘successful president’. And this was, of course, inherited by Volodymyr Zelensky and there’s really no way for him to “get rid of it.”
Regardless, to make things worse, negotiations with the IMF appear to be going poorly, with it continuing its demands to for Ukraine to cut social programs and to raise tariffs. All of this together can bring down the current ratings quickly enough, therefore, it is required to appoint a guilty person in advance who will be responsible for the upcoming decline in living standards.
Poroshenko is already being investigated for various corruption scandals. So one more wouldn’t be surprising, Valeriia Hontareva would possibly also be investigated. That is because Kolomoisky and Zelensky need to present a proper version of why things are falling apart.
The main thing that Zelensky and his entourage need to do is to prove to Ukrainian society that the “economic stability named after Poroshenko” was purely fictitious and based on the credit enslavement of Ukraine.
Simple enough.
But, in addition to paying old debts and interest on them, as well as eliminating the consequences of the economic policies of Poroshenko and Hontareva, it is necessary to take loans again and fulfill the requirements of creditors, that is, to do what Poroshenko did.
Proof of this is the upcoming removal of the moratorium on the purchase of Ukrainian land by transnational corporations.
Then there is the issue of the gas transit to Ukraine, which shows unwillingness to stand to any pressure from the United States, which strongly opposes any gas transit from Russia. Germany, on the other hand, is showing that it is prepared to take it and will cooperate with Russia on the Nord Stream 2. Ukraine may be faced with a dire energy situation if it doesn’t quickly establish a political will to, at least partially, stand up to the US.
But, Ukraine’s new Energy Minister Oleksiy Orzhel’s words show that it is unlikely to happen.
“For us, the priority is Naftogaz, unbundling, signing an agreement on gas transit … Now we are working on which model is the best, we talked about this with our American partners. We’ll choose the best model, the fastest certification, we need to go out in full combat readiness for negotiations with the Russian side.”
Essentially, he admitted that whatever the US will happen in Ukraine, which is a dire potential possibility.
So far, it appears that the situation in Ukraine has little difference from that during the Poroshenko era. It might even get worse.
Just recently, Zelensky noted his first “anniversary” of 100 days in office. He achieved very little, essentially nothing. He appointed some dubious ministers, as well as a figurehead Prime Minister, with very little experience.
Well, at the least, Zelensky is “fighting corruption,” after all, the Ukrainian Parliament voted in favor of removing parliamentary immunity, one of his campaign promises.
Other than that, Zelensky and his entourage spend 100 days consolidating power, making promises so that the government may also be subject to control, and then time will tell what happens onwards.
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Meet new corrupt boss, same as old corrupt boss. The Ukraine should get rid of these oligarchs if they want to grow healthy again.
The oligarchs are remnants of the 1980s and 1990s, and they exist in pretty much every ex-soviet republic, including Russia. They consolidated the power once the Soviet power structure crumbled. And even while there was some political will to fight them, they are so big and those economies depend so much on them, that they are untouchable for politicians. They have the capital, they have the assets, they own everything and everyone. They are “too big to fail”. Even in Russia today they are imminent. Without their capital and assets, the economies would plunge into crisis. Therefore, even someone like Putin can only ask small contributions, like capital for funding some culture project, some youths club, or even financing NGOs and private groups for info war. The whole Eastern Europe economies are shadow economies, and with the Oligarchs having their capital not only in business but also in otherwise state funded programs, they have all the leverage they need to influence politics. At any level, in any or their respective ex soviet countries. Sadly only a total system crash could allow a totally new beginning. Other than that, they will always be tainted with the corrupt power of the Oligarchs, that no politician can truly touch, despite some small cases to the contrary. Its a sad reality, but its the reality.
utter nonsense—u regurgitate amerikan MSM propaganda
This Zelenky,Poroshenko,Sakasvilli,Bush,Obama,Clinton,Macroni,May Boris,Bafoon Pompeo, infected computer stick Bolton,Head chopper Erdogan,Mama shaker Merkel are same shit which you wipe of with same toilet paper.
The Khazar pots calling the Khazar kettles black again, as the fire of corruption holocausts the Ukranian people.
Ohh the hollow Claus – in an article about the Chabad Lubavitch, and Azov Battalion, contributer Kolomoisky. This calls for the holy words of the Rebbe – Moshiach Schneerson:
‘On the subject of the Holocaust, the Rebbe wrote as follows: “It is clear that ‘no evil descends from Above,’ and buried within torment and suffering is a core of exalted spiritual good. Not all human beings are able to perceive it, but it is very much there. So it is not impossible for the physical destruction of the Holocaust to be spiritually beneficial. On the contrary, it is quite possible that physical affliction is good for the spirit” (“Mada Ve’emuna,” Machon Lubavitch, 1980, Kfar Chabad). Schneerson goes on to compare God to a surgeon who amputates a patient’s limb in order to save his life. The limb “is incurably diseased … The Holy One Blessed Be He, like the professor-surgeon…seeks the good of Israel, and indeed, all He does is done for the good…. In the spiritual sense, no harm was done, because the everlasting spirit of the Jewish people was not destroyed.” https://www.haaretz.com/1.4823447
LOL.
Ironic. How much did Kolomoisky make out of Ukraine, including his Privat Bank assets? Kolomoisky, who was ‘persona non-grata’ in the US, till he gave Joe Biden’s little boy a job. Now he is flavour of the month, with the Dems, just not the Trump team.
So will Zelensky turn away from Kolomoisky, to keep Trump happy and hand over the dirt on 2020 Presidential Campaigner Joe Biden. Or will he stick with keeping Kolomoisky and the US Democratic party happy?
Where are the oligarchs going to get there money now? The Ukraine begging bowl, keeps coming back empty.
Weren’t Kolomoisky and Avakov, allegedly behind the Odessa Trade Union Building Massacre?
Oleg Tsarev: Behind-The-Scenes Infighting Between Zelensky and Avakov Has Begun… https://www.stalkerzone.org/oleg-tsarev-behind-the-scenes-infighting-between-zelensky-and-avakov-has-begun/
Disposable Ukraine: Why Washington’s Interest in Kiev Became Cold…https://www.stalkerzone.org/disposable-ukraine-why-washingtons-interest-in-kiev-became-cold/
Ukraine Has to Pay the IMF $500 Million in September… https://www.stalkerzone.org/ukraine-has-to-pay-the-imf-500-million-in-september/
Khazar Overlords, v2.0
Taste the f’king FREEDOM, Grandma. Slava, Ukraine!
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The US May Buy Ukraine Instead of Greenland… https://www.stalkerzone.org/the-us-may-buy-ukraine-instead-of-greenland/
On that, AM, I think it is VERY wrong: why should they buy it, when they already own it or can steal it from the ukrainians? The yanks, with the City, crashed ukraine’s currency, the Grivna (I use the Russian word for it, not the inferior ukrainian word) to about 1/4 of what it was in 2013, making everything there that much cheaper in $ terms.
With you, regards pillaging Ukraine. Nought left now, for the oligarchs, who no doubt will soon be wishing to going back to business as usual with Russia. Courtesy of selective memory and greed.
Just read that westinghouse is getting more involved in ukraine’s nuclear industry. (
What on earth could go wrong? Starting with the wrong shaped fuel rods.