Ukraine at a crossroads

Today in Ukraine the time has come «X»: it is either to cross the «Rubicon» and begin the real fight against corruption, or will start to slide back into the coordinate system of the times of Yanukovych.

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Today, the 3rd of February 2016, in Ukraine had place the resignation of chief specialists of economic transformation: Ayvaras Abromavichus – Minister of economic development and trade of Ukraine; Yulia Klimenko – chief of staff of the Ministry of economic development and trade of Ukraine and Maksim Nefedov – Deputy Minister of economic development and trade of Ukraine. All three officials stated the impossibility of conducting reforms in Ukraine, because unpunished corrupt officials of times of Yanukovych emerge from the shadows, holding political and public posts and create a tendency to return Ukraine under political and economic protectorate of Russia.  

Minister Ayvaras Abromavichus announced the decision to resign from the fact that the state authorities at the highest levels have no support to hold true economic reform. On the contrary, there is active opposition to reforms. Ayvaras Abromavichus accused Igor Kononenko – MP («Petro Poroshenko Bloc»), the blocking system reform measures of the Ministry of Economy.

After the official statement of Ayvaras Abromavichus resignation, he urgently met President Petro Poroshenko. The outcome of the meeting was the statement of Poroshenko that Ayvaras Abromavichus should withdraw his resignation and continue to work in the Ministry. The President also added that information which was sounded Abromavichus, shall immediately check out the National anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine. Poroshenko said that the MP Kononenko, accused of obstructing reforms, is ready to give explanations during the investigation of the National anti-corruption Bureau.   

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The experts in Ukraine were divided into two camps.

The first group of experts believes that President Poroshenko should be determined: it will be with the odious command of Kononenko and Deputy Prosecutor Shokin, or Pro-European team of reformers.

The second group of experts argues that President Poroshenko is in a fine political game called «blow up the situation from the inside», to accelerate economic reforms. In such circumstances, it would be much easier to make decisions that are necessary for the reform of Ukraine in the framework of the American project «Showcase».

This of the two groups of rights will be clear soon – after one or two weeks.

In such a difficult situation, by the way, the President should not refer to the National anti-corruption Bureau, and to lay him before Abromavichus  clean sheet of paper and say: «Write me all the points that I, as President, should perform, so you could freely pursue economic reform». Then the same thing should be done by the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

And even better to resort to drastic measures, which massively support the Ukrainians:

▪ to declare Ukraine as the enclave in Europe;

▪ to impose direct American rule;

▪ to appoint to key economic posts of the American managers;

▪ place in Ukraine USA military base;

▪ enter in Ukraine English as a second language;

▪ change Ukrainian alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin.

If such measures will be done in one month, six years later, Ukraine will be at the level of economic development of USA and become one of the best USA partners in the Eurasian continent.