Ukrainian oligarchs are the main obstacle for establishing a functioning state and a stable economy in the country, political risk consultant Neil Abrams and analyst Steven Fish wrote in an article for Foreign Policy.
This is How Ukraine Could Turn Into a 'Functioning Democratic State'
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160615/1041374468/ukraine-oligarchs-corruption.html
In Ukraine, oligarchs control all major media, the parliament and the judiciary system. The executive branch is headed by President Petro Poroshenko, an "oligarch with a dubious past," the article read.
Until a heavy blow is dealt to tycoons’ power and wealth any reforms in Ukraine are doomed to fail, the analysts noted.
In the article, they presented a roadmap of four steps needed to give a chance to reforms
First, via popular actions at the polls, Ukrainians must replace the political class which has ruled the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the article read.
"Any government that hails from this class, including the current one, will be too compromised by ties to the oligarchs to transform the country," the authors wrote.
They recommended electing a parliamentary majority and a president "from outside the post-communist political establishment."
The second step is replacing corrupt officials in the state administration with "motivated activists and outsiders."
These first two steps are aimed at loosing the oligarchs’ grip on the state, according to the article. The third and fourth ones would blow a deal to their financial power.
"The third step is to eliminate the subsidies on which most of the oligarchs depend. This first requires privatizing state enterprises that the moguls use to enrich themselves," the authors proposed. Moreover, Ukraine’s system of taxation and regulation should be simplified.
Finally, the government must force oligarchs to cough up a significant part of their wealth, the article read.
"The newly-established special prosecutors should carry out arrests on corruption-related charges of as many oligarchs as possible. It should then offer them a plea bargain: Either pay a giant, one-time tax on the assets they’ve stolen or face prosecution for past misdeeds," the article read.
The West can help Ukraine in this noble cause, the authors pointed out. Western countries should give access to information about oligarchs’ offshore schemes. They also should suspend financial aid to Kiev because it is only strengthening the positions of the current ruling class.
"All aid could resume once genuine reformers come to power and install a government free of oligarchs and their hirelings," the authors wrote.
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter held a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian Minister of Defense Stepan Poltorak on the sidelines of a NATO ministerial in Brussels, Belgium, US Department of Defense spokesperson Peter Cook said in a press release on Wednesday.
Carter, Ukraine Defense Minister Meet in Brussels to Review US Aid to Kiev
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160615/1041380412/us-aid-ukraine.html
Earlier, it was reported that NATO is going to approve aid for Ukraine at the alliance’s summit in Warsaw after assessment of the reforms implemented in the country.
"Secretary Carter and Minister Poltorak reviewed US security assistance efforts designed to help build the capacity of Ukraine's forces," Cook stated.
In December 2014, the Ukrainian parliament amended two laws rejecting the neutral status of the country. Ukraine set the goal to be ready for joining NATO in 2020. In mid-December 2015, Ukraine and NATO signed a roadmap on defense-technical cooperation.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has proposed an initiative for organizing a guerrilla movement in the country. This was reported on Tuesday by the head of state’s press service.
Poroshenko calls for law on total mobilization and martial law to be prepared
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/06/poroshenko-calls-for-law-on-total.html
“In the event of a full-scale invasion, there should be a polished plan for the total mobilization and functioning of the country under the circumstances of martial law,” Poroshenko said during the scientific-practical conference “Lessons of Hybrid War” at the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“The fact that we are not declaring total mobilization now is due only to the fact that the campaign to build a contract army has been effective,” the head of state added.
According to Poroshenko, a plan for the total mobilization and functioning of the country in the conditions of martial law should, among other things, provide for the optimization of the work of enterprises of the military-industrial complex, the “creation of new capacities and production facilities producing the latest weapons.”
In addition, Poroshenko said that until Ukraine becomes a NATO member, it should have its own proper army.
“We should identify and ensure strict adherence by all security structures to the legal and technical requirements of the development and use of weapons, equipment, and strength standard for the armies of NATO countries,” he remarked.
Poroshenko instructed for draft decisions to be prepared and brought to the session of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, after which such will be passed on for consideration by the government.
Kiev armed formations launched 63 mines at northern and western suburbs of Donetsk, Gorlovka, Dokuchaevsk, and Elenovka
Kiev Nazi fighters launched 60 mines at Donetsk, Gorlovka and Elenovka
http://novorossia.today/kiev-nazi-fighters-launched-60-mines-at-donetsk-gorlovka-and-elenovka/
‘In period since 11 pm to 1 am Ukrainian fighters subjected to shelling Dokuchaevsk, Zaytsevo, Spartak, Elenovka, Staromihaylovka and Aleksandrovla, representative of the DPR Defence inistry reported.
In regard to the data of the resource, the hostility conducted shelling from Novotroitskoe, Opytnoe, Zhovanka, Taramchuk, Krasnogorovka.
It was reported that due to the preliminary information as a result of shelling 3 houses destroyed in Dokuchaevsk.
War in Ukraine started in 2013 since Maidan where armed group of Praviy Sector played the main role.
“Right Sector” (Ukraine): the history, fascist ideology and role in Euromaidan
http://novorossia.today/right-sector-ukraine-the-history-fascist-ideology-and-role-in-euromaidan/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYyy0aeWrnw (1 hour)
Published on Apr 23, 2015
The international movement “Essence of Time” and the international civil resistance "Vognebroda.net" publish movie "The Right Sector": the history, fascist ideology and role in Euromaidan in 2014”
The Ukrainian neo-Nazi organization "Right sector", its history, its fascist ideology and its role in the military coup of Euromaidan in 2014 in Ukraine is described in details in this movie. The sequence of mass murders, conducted by "Right sector" in Odessa and other cities of the Southeast of Ukraine in 2014, are also included in the movie.
Additionally, the history of Ukrainian nationalism is described. The movie includes details of the role of Bandera and his Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in the mass crimes in Lviv (Lvov) and Volhynia, and its links to the German fascists and SS forces.
The main essence of the process which became uncovered in Ukraine, lies not even in confrontation with Russia (which is very important), but in the slow emersion of Nazi’s submarine of 4th Reich supported by applause of United States and Europe.
4th Reich is a Nazi’s concept, firstly declared in 1946 at the Neo-Nazi Internationale at San-Remo, which now takes up the global nature via Ukraine. For the first time ever, the Nazis were used with a blessing from the USA and Europe. There were the same Nazis, which were hidden under the wings of foreign intelligence services since 1945 and which were fostered against the Soviet Union all these years.
At the moment, when bipolar world was destroyed and when madmen were triumphing over the collapse of the Soviet Union, a way to Nazification of Europe was opened. And now we are observing one thing: a union of Nazis and liberals (or extremists a la Islam and liberals), as a new formula used by America everywhere. At that, the Nazis (or bin Laden) form a strike force leading the quasi-liberal masses of people. After that, the masses are washed out and the radicals step forward.
First goes desovietization, then comes dechristianization, and, afterwards, this black hellfire cauldron appears. As an alternative to this, a noble alloy emerging now in Donbass is offered, as well as the things said by His Holiness, our Patriarch Kirill at the opening of Worldwide Russian People’s Council: “How someone’s national consciousness should be torn, in which caverns of thought and spirit should someone’s national consciousness rest, for that he, considering himself the bearer of Russian national idea, abandons the saints and heroes of the native history, the endeavors of the ancestors, and makes the Nazis and their minions idols for himself”.
Which caverns of filth have germinated this Nazi identity? Who grew it up, apart from Ukrainians themselves?
PS
In case YouTube blocks this video, you can also watch it here:
http://notbremse.livejournal.com/2421...
