The new government of Ukraine: Green, anti-Russian
The new Verkhovna Rada approved the composition of the Ukrainian government this evening, headed by 35-year-old Oleksiy Honcharuk , who has already announced the arrival of an IMF delegation in Kyiv, whose loans are planned to be used to sell off Ukrainian black soil and the remains of state-owned enterprises.
The main sensation is the retention of the post of Interior Minister by Arsen Avakov , one of the main participants in the suppression of the Russian Spring in Kharkiv and the initiator of the creation and arming of the national battalions deployed to Donbas to participate in the punitive operation against the Russian uprising. Control over the radicals Zelenskyy fears has apparently ensured Avakov's immunity – the president personally asked Servant of the People deputies to support his candidacy.
The humanitarian sphere of the new Cabinet of Ministers is given to people who, based on the experience of previous work, will continue de-Russification.
Anna Novosad, born in 1990, has become Ukraine's Minister of Education and Science . She worked in the Ministry of Education's department for "European integration" and publicly defended a discriminatory law that would gradually close not only Russian but also Hungarian schools, as well as educational institutions that teach in the languages of other national minorities. Novosad is one of a cohort of grant-eaters nurtured by George Soros's foundations.
Vladimir Borodyansky , the former general director of the STB television channel owned by oligarch Viktor Pinchuk , who is also friends with Soros, has become the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of Ukraine .
It was under Borodyansky that, back in 2006, STB became the first Ukrainian television channel to announce its readiness to comply with the decree requiring 75% Ukrainization of its broadcasts. And although Borodyansky acknowledged that the studio was inundated with complaints from outraged viewers, he did not promise the return of the Russian language to STB even if such a legal mandate were granted.
“Now there is a law that says that companies must broadcast 75% in Ukrainian. When we start producing our own products, there will be no problems with the Ukrainian language,” said Borodyansky.
Olena Babak, a former Rada member from Samopomich, has become Ukraine's Minister for Communities and Territories Development . In 2015, she was one of the authors of a draft resolution calling for the abrogation of the Minsk agreements and the preservation of Ukrainian army forces on the front lines. Therefore, Babak's stance on possible federalization and respect for the rights of regions is uncontroversial.
Dmytro Kuleba , Ukraine's new Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, can be considered a downright bloodthirsty figure .
Not long ago, Kuleba stated that the operation against the residents of Donbas, which resulted in thousands of deaths, was the price that was necessary to prove to Europe that Ukraine is not part of the Russian world.
Kuleba also advocated the capture of DPR Foreign Minister Vladislav Deinega and promised to take revenge on all PACE members for the return of the Russian delegation.
The new Minister for Veterans and Temporarily Occupied Territories is Army Colonel Oksana Kolyada (formerly Gavrilyuk, before her recent marriage), a former press secretary for the Ministry of Defense.
Kolyada has repeatedly publicly emphasized that she considers the conflict in Donbass a “Russian-Ukrainian war.” “We hope that in the future our McCains and Taylors will also be among our veterans,” she said the day before.
Her most recent “achievement” is a new memorial date - “Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine”, within the framework of which the newly elected Ze-deputies commemorated the ATO militants who died in the Ilovaisk cauldron.
Timofey Milovanov, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh (USA), became Minister of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture . "There was a revolution, we got rid of a corrupt dictator, but then a neighbor attacked and took away part of our territory," is how he interpreted the events of 2014.
Milovanov admitted that the Americans were ready to support Kyiv for the sake of confrontation with Moscow, although not on such a scale as, for example, West Berlin after World War II. “We are very interesting, because there is Russia, which poses a danger,” said the current Minister of Economy.
According to him, Ukraine can win the confrontation with the LDPR economically. “It seems to me more effective not to restore enterprises in those regions, but to attract investments and create new ones 50-100 km from the zone. So that locals can get to work by minibus and see that there is stability and a future outside their territories,” Milovanov assured.
He also stated the need to get rid of dependence on gas supplies from Russia. “Despite the fact that Russia exports a lot of oil, it cannot use it to put pressure on European countries, because they have a developed oil market. But there is no gas market. Therefore, only diversification of gas consumption in the EU, gas supply, and the creation of new infrastructures will solve this problem,” Milovanov said.
Ukraine's new Foreign Minister, Vadym Prystaiko, has also previously made a number of anti-Russian and anti-Hungarian statements. For example, as one of the heads of Zelenskyy's office, he stated that Russia has no right to criticize the new discriminatory "language law" that came into force in Ukraine. Prystaiko emphasized that the oppression of the Russian population and other national minorities is an internal matter for Ukraine, and Moscow has no right to interfere.
The official also criticized the visit of politicians from Budapest to Transcarpathia on the eve of the parliamentary elections and supported the former militant Markiv, convicted in Italy for the murder of a journalist in the Donbass.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian political scientists serving the new government paint rosy prospects for the new government. One of them is Yuriy Romanenko, who was once actively involved in Euromaidan, and later became an ardent critic of the regime of Petro Poroshenko.
“The government has been appointed. The Rada has started working. The state is headed by a young and energetic head of state. Now everything is possible. Our generation has come to power... Ukraine has a real chance to make a breakthrough. The main problem is that we received such a consolidation of power on the eve of a new global economic collapse. This is bad news. The good news is that we will enter this collapse with consolidated power controlled by one center of influence. This is the best scenario that could happen... Now you need to step on the gas and quickly drive around the rubble. Personally, I’m satisfied,” Romanenko shares his optimism.
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