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> Subject: The unelected government in Kiev has an oligarch issue!
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:23:15 +0000 (UTC)
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> The unelected government in Kiev has an oligarch issue. The second
> article below (from Nation of Change magazine) only barely touches on
> it. The first article (from the UK's Daily Mail) reveals Tymoshenko's
> extensive wealth as well as the manner by which she obtained it.
>
> Also Kiev's unelected government has clearly chosen an anti-democracy,
> anti-diversity vision for the country. That vision consists of these
> steps. First, drive out the members of the parliament that belong to
> the democratically elected majority Party of the Regions.
>
> (Observe that Tymoshenko's party was not in any position to rule given
> the following statistics from the 2012 election:
>
> Tymoshenko is the leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland"
> political party, which received the second most votes in the 2012
> Ukrainian parliamentary election, winning 101 of parliament's 450
> seats. (wikipedia)
>
> Notice that the constitutional majority is 300! Well, 101 is not
> exactly close to 300 out of a total of 450, is it?)
>
> Second, replace local government officials with their own people,
> disregarding the sentiment of the local population.
>
> And third, pass a law in the now eviscerated parliament in Kiev to
> disqualify Russian as an official language, even when Russian is still
> the language the majority in Ukraine speak, especially in the east and
> the southeast regions of the country, as well as the autonomous regime
> of Crimea.
>
> All these moves were counter to the social ideals western democracies
> have been preaching.
>
> So diversity and democracy are only for the few who are rushing to
> embrace the west. Whatever it is that they want from the west, it is
> not its lofty ideals of democracy and diversity - and by corollary,
> does not guarantee the protection of rights of those who are not
> represented in power hierarchy.
>
> Also, the west doesn't have money for them either, considering that
> the US is still working out the guarantees for a one-billion loan from
> the IMF and the EU is coming up with only another three billions of
> some sort of financial aid - something not even close to what Russia
> had previously offered.
>
> What these privileged few like Tymoshenko and her protege Yatsenyuk
> seem to crave is therefore only the political power that they will
> personally be able to enjoy with the west's backing. Of course there
> is a price for the west's backing. It will be the pensioners and the
> working class who will have to pay that price, due to the IMF's
> austerity measures. But clearly these oligarch-politicians won't
> care.
>
> In fact, the former prime minister billionaire Yulia Tymoshenko was
> seen as a highly corrupt politician, just like some of her
> predecessors, until the latest revelation of Yanuskovych himself.
>
> In reference to Tymoshenko's corruption, the UK's Daily Mail Online
> has this to say:
>
> For two lucrative years her company United Energy Systems controlled
> Ukraine's entire gas imports from Russia. In the former Soviet Union,
> gas traders could make colossal profits. With the right connections,
> gas could be acquired cheaply - and sold at a juicy premium.
>
> Ukraine's heavy industry and hard winters mean gas is consumed in
> vast amounts. Mrs Tymoshenko became known as the "gas princess".
> Ukrainians did not mean that as a compliment.
>
> She served as energy minister in the government of Prime Minister
> Pavlo Lazarenko. During that two-year period, 120 billion British
> pounds, according to the United Nations, was looted from Ukraine.
> Lazarenko is now serving a nine-year prison sentence in America for
> money-laundering, wire fraud and extortion.
>
> According to court documents, Mr Lazarenko allocated Mrs Tymoshenko
> concessions which gave her a third of Ukraine's gas industry - and
> about a fifth of its GDP.
>
> I should note that Mr Tymoshenko, husband of the former prime minister
> and energy minister of Ukraine, is now safely retired to the Czech
> Republic, far away from Ukraine, no doubt taking a lot of wealth with
> him that used to belong to Ukraine.
>
> So, Ukraine does have an oligarch issue, especially when Kiev is now
> openly appointing a bunch of tycoons to rule the regions across the
> country, as a super-corrupt politician is passionately embracing the
> west in defiance of the sentiment of the large swathe of working class
> and elderly population.
>
> lo yeeOn
>
> 1) Don't be fooled by her angelic looks, she's as ruthless as she's
> corrupt: A withering portrait of Ukraine's 'saviour' by EDWARD LUCAS,
> a Russia expert who knows her well
>
> By Edward Lucas
>
> PUBLISHED: 18:16 EST, 23 February 2014
> UPDATED: 05:32 EST, 24 February 2014
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2566299/Dont-fooled-an
elic-looks-shes-ruthless-shes-corrupt-A-withering-portrait-Ukrai
es-saviour-EDWARD-LUCAS-Russia-expert-knows-well.html
>
> . . .
>
> In those economically unstable years, murky connections with
> officialdom could be a company's most valuable asset.
>
> For two lucrative years her company United Energy Systems controlled
> Ukraine's entire gas imports from Russia. In the former Soviet Union,
> gas traders could make colossal profits. With the right connections,
> gas could be acquired cheaply - and sold at a juicy premium.
>
> Ukraine's heavy industry and hard winters mean gas is consumed in
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