This guy is terrific. And his analysis points to the brilliance of the Minsk 2 strangulation of the junta in Kiev.
There is no way out for Kiev. And he hints that they will never go for it. In other words, Ukraine as a nation is now going to fall apart. It has to. It needs billions to be loaned and it’s sold off all its good assets. They will have to sell their population next (which they have every indication and intention of doing).
Being a greedy Ukro-trash tycoon (acting as President), Poor-Old-Shenko couldn’t possibly care less about the State coffers of what passes for his “country” — Banderite Ukraine is one giant fiefdom and an utter basket case all along the line. Sure, Mr. President did say this the other day:
“Please apologize me for the emotions, however, I have to say that. Drop in the living standards, poverty, financial hardship of a majority of the Ukrainians and a high social price of the Russian aggression weigh heavily on my heart.”
It would be tempting to dismiss these words as mere imbecilic hogwash as they indeed have been scripted for a manifest lowlife such as Poroshenko to read out, but that would actually be to miss the point. Yes, Banderite Ukraine is a hopeless basket case as I said, saturated with corruption, fascist lawlessness, and utter chaos. But all that came about 100% on purpose. The Maidan putsch was the very obvious intentional act of its enforcement. No, what weighs heavily on Mr. President’s peace of mind — a heart he has not — is that his lackey putschist government has utterly failed to “deliver” in the eyes of Western imperialism. The “Russian aggression” meme above does not refer to the Donbass; it refers to Crimea. When Crimea was “annexed by Putin”, all prospects for the Ukraine to emerge as a prosperous US colony — something which is already becoming a thing of the past globally by the way — went up in smoke. As a result, Poor-Old-Shenko himself and his entire “country” are a lost cause to Western imperialism. Serves him right.
Yep. Poor Old played “Monopoly” locally as a proxy player for his masters with the Globalist glint of the whole damned game board in their eyes.
He forgot that real people inhabit the real game board and might have something to say about their future, and reject his game. And so it was, where it really counted to the globalists: Crimea.
Location, location, location.
Poor Old looks like he’s thinking: “I need a vacation, vacation, vacation.”
Maybe he can look up Yats in Reno (I heard Yats was headed there, to seek a new vocation, vocation, vocation??), where they can both play and lose some more in the globalist casino.
I’ll post a song for them in the Café. Know When to Hold ’em, Know When to Fold ’em.
Someone in Ukraine was saying if when Minsk falls apart it is only the fault of those signatories for signing up in the first place and only these should be blamed, it ain’t Ukraine’s fault…….probably on anna-news somewhere…….
In a past life I owned a fight training gym, and was the manager of a fight team of Combat Sports fighters (probably one reason why I don’t accept weakness in responding to bullies very well).The reason I mention that is because in Russia,Ukraine,and all Eastern Europe,Combat Sports is a major sporting activity. Russia has some of the best fight promotions in Europe,if not the World. And up until 2014,Ukraine was well represented as well.Several of the best in Ukraine were in the Southeast (Novorossia) and many of the fighters sided against the junta. So now we see mostly pro-fascist promotions left in Ukraine.I was watching several videos of MMA fights in Ukraine today. And was appalled that they are now openly promoting fascism.The fighting cages are decorated with pro-nazi Azov insignia including their representation of the swastika.And some fighters even sported Azov nazi tattoos.
The importance of all that,has several dimensions.As I said European Europe is a “hotbed” of Combat Sports. Its extremely popular with young men (as is true Worldwide).The fact of the “open” display of “fascism” there. As if to say,”nothing unusual here,everything is normal” is a really bad sign. It shows that fascist groups are becoming “the norm,not the exception” there. Knowing a lot about the business,I also noticed that the set-up of the organization was very professional. And the fighting cage they used was top of the line,and very expensive.Someone had some “big bucks” to spent there.Many of the smaller promotions even in the US aren’t that well equipped. The quality of the fighters wasn’t bad either. And no one seemed to be starving in the crowd. It was well attended for a smaller show. And usually tickets aren’t that cheap for events like that. All in all,not a good sign at all.The longer fascism is allowed to stay in Ukraine,the more it will be seen as a viable and “normal” part of the country’s politics.
As an interesting sidenote: In the past,and it seems still today.Fighters used to go back and forth between promotions in Russia and in Ukraine. I saw a Ukrainian fighter on a 2015 video (well within the time of Ukraine claiming “Russia invaded them”) ,competing at an big promotion in Russia (he won BTW). Then next I saw the same fighter competing in the “Azov” decorated promotion in Ukraine (he lost that time).I’m not sure if any Russian fighters compet any longer in Ukraine. I’m not sure how safe that would be for them.If they won the fascists might attack them.But Ukrainians seem to still compete in Russia. Which is the main hub of Combat Sports in the region.
I think you make a good point about the longer the fascist stay in power the harder it will be to get them out. Especially if they start to do well people will accept the system as they have jobs money etc.
The system must be made to collapse.
A way must be found by sanctions or withdrawing of business. I can’t understand why russian businesses still operate their with the attempted burning of the russian embassy and threats to Russians living in ukraine who want to vote.
Why in earth do they carry on like all is normal
Its the same throughout history. Human’s never seem to learn from history,and constantly repeat the same mistakes.Some said in 1936,don’t let Hitler militarize the Rhineland. But France and Britain did nothing. We know now from the German records that if the French had moved troops to the border the German Generals were ready to stage a coup against Hitler.Then the takeover of Austria,some said don’t let Hitler do that,but again nothing was done. Then came Munich,and the same thing,nothing was done to stop him.After that it was too late to avoid WWII.To change the famous saying from that time a bit,”the World was offered war or dishonor,they chose dishonor,and got war as well”.We are offered the same today with the Ukrainian fascists. The dishonor of not stopping them “now”,will bring us war in the future,as well as the dishonor we have now.
Great video with sharp analysis.
Ukraine really is a waste of time and energy for all concerned as they will not implement Minsk 2 under threats from neo nazi therefore sanctions will continue.
Who will give in first?
Actually I feel that the more openly, crazy fascist they are, the more the Ukie regime will be discredited and toppled. But maybe not, maybe fascism is now tolerated again in Europe.
Fascism is European values par excellence. The Ukros are to be lauded for being so straightforward on the subject. The EU has got the admirers it deserves.
You have a point. A rabidly anti-Russian, corporate media-influenced relative of mine has continued to pay attention to what is happening in the Ukraine, mostly because of his dispute with me. If the Ukro-nazis were not so obvious, he might never have seen what was really going on, but that and the obvious support of the US for ISIS in Syria, with Russia being the only power to take effective action against these most heinous of terrorists has caused him to slowly change his mind and start to accept some of the sources I quote.
Canada’s Trudeau government is as much a fan of the Poroshenko regime as Stephen Harper’s was before them. Nearly a billion dollars in ‘loans’, a free-trade deal and Canadian troop ‘trainers’ in Ukraine are the results of a kind of Canadian ultranationalist AIPAC, and include a pro-active Banderite lobby of powerful Liberals in caucus.
One of the most powerful is now the International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, currently toiling and moiling on such important files as CETA, TPP and, always, always, Ukraine. Chrystia Freeland believes Poroshenko represents the very best Ukraine has had. Ever.
“I really believe that this is the best government Ukraine has had in its entire history.”
We can only hope the Banderite diaspora’s relentless support and agitation for their governments to do so also, is exposed as evil and corrupt as the Nazi-NATO coup-regime which helped set it up into power.
Chrystia Freeland’s book, “Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else” probably isn’t worth a read unless you’re interested in deconstructing an informed sell-out.
Peculiarly, another Canadian financial journalist is cozy with Ukrainian Nazism. Well, actually she’s an American/dual citizen who wrote a book advocating a Canada-U.S.merger.
Canada and Ukrainian Nazism apparently have a longstanding friendly relationship since WWII and support for Ukraine Nazis may not be entirely out of ignorance. Its possible no amount of education will change Canadian’s minds about Banderos because there is far more extensive tacit support for Nazism in Canada than advertised.
Ukrainians aren’t usually associated with Nazi racism and bigotry in Canada; rather the victims of intolerance. Ukrainians were also strongly associated with the Canadian left, fear of communism was a driver for early persecution of Ukrainians in Canada.
DNInews is asking whether Ukraine’s will or is about to put up for auction 1 million hectares of land to foreign investors………Zakharchenk yesterday was saying that after yet again a ceasefire announced by poro to start on 15th Sept if Ukraine continues to attack…..Donbass will withdraw from the “ceasefire’.
apparently ukr can now-coincidentally host eurovision, but the cost is more than it spends on childrens hospitals?
Note an anti maidan ukraine person who had to flee to russia has been murdered there………………………….http://tass.com/world/900892?_ga=1.147485182.813553340.1472135887
same old tricks
Sunday, September 18, 2016 – 12:52
The Kiev military kept in cellar an elderly resident of the DPR and her son released by the Ukrainian court, in order to exchange them for the SBU Colonel detained in Donetsk, stated the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Donetsk People’s Republic Darya Morozova.
It was reported that on the bridge at the Schastye locality controlled by the Kiev military there took place the exchange of prisoners and detainees during which the Ukrainian party released four Donbass civilians, having received two people suspected by the DPR and LPR law enforcement agencies of participation in subversive and terrorist activity.
“The SBU Colonel (Yury Suprun) was exchanged for a 75-year-old elderly lade tho had been tortured in prison. They let her and her son go. They were officially released about one and a half weeks ago by the decision of the Mariupol court, and disappeared. Even the UN human rights officials addressed me with this case. I told them the where they were staying stably in the Mariupol SBU — in a cellar. But today, as we see, they were transferred to us within another exchange,” said Morozova.
“It seems like I am released, but I’m not,” added Diana Prokofyevna born in 1941 released yesterday by the Kiev military. ” https://dninews.com/article/kiev-illegally-held-two-civilians-captivity-especially-exchange
Starting in 2017, Ukraine will have the lowest official salaries in Europe; that’s according to calculations by lawmaker Oleksander Vilkul. Meanwhile, Ukrainian politicians and economists have begun investigating the conditions attached to the IMF’s recent $1 billion loan tranche, discovering that more austerity reforms are the order of the day.
Wit of the Russian mind. Sarcasm illuminates.
This guy is terrific. And his analysis points to the brilliance of the Minsk 2 strangulation of the junta in Kiev.
There is no way out for Kiev. And he hints that they will never go for it. In other words, Ukraine as a nation is now going to fall apart. It has to. It needs billions to be loaned and it’s sold off all its good assets. They will have to sell their population next (which they have every indication and intention of doing).
I love this guy’s videos. Keep them coming.
Being a greedy Ukro-trash tycoon (acting as President), Poor-Old-Shenko couldn’t possibly care less about the State coffers of what passes for his “country” — Banderite Ukraine is one giant fiefdom and an utter basket case all along the line. Sure, Mr. President did say this the other day:
“Please apologize me for the emotions, however, I have to say that. Drop in the living standards, poverty, financial hardship of a majority of the Ukrainians and a high social price of the Russian aggression weigh heavily on my heart.”
It would be tempting to dismiss these words as mere imbecilic hogwash as they indeed have been scripted for a manifest lowlife such as Poroshenko to read out, but that would actually be to miss the point. Yes, Banderite Ukraine is a hopeless basket case as I said, saturated with corruption, fascist lawlessness, and utter chaos. But all that came about 100% on purpose. The Maidan putsch was the very obvious intentional act of its enforcement. No, what weighs heavily on Mr. President’s peace of mind — a heart he has not — is that his lackey putschist government has utterly failed to “deliver” in the eyes of Western imperialism. The “Russian aggression” meme above does not refer to the Donbass; it refers to Crimea. When Crimea was “annexed by Putin”, all prospects for the Ukraine to emerge as a prosperous US colony — something which is already becoming a thing of the past globally by the way — went up in smoke. As a result, Poor-Old-Shenko himself and his entire “country” are a lost cause to Western imperialism. Serves him right.
Yep. Poor Old played “Monopoly” locally as a proxy player for his masters with the Globalist glint of the whole damned game board in their eyes.
He forgot that real people inhabit the real game board and might have something to say about their future, and reject his game. And so it was, where it really counted to the globalists: Crimea.
Location, location, location.
Poor Old looks like he’s thinking: “I need a vacation, vacation, vacation.”
Maybe he can look up Yats in Reno (I heard Yats was headed there, to seek a new vocation, vocation, vocation??), where they can both play and lose some more in the globalist casino.
I’ll post a song for them in the Café. Know When to Hold ’em, Know When to Fold ’em.
https://youtu.be/gDwCMxPwJ_4
These 4 lines stand out, for me, thinking agapically, for this lost soul (read his face):
“You’ve got to know when to hold ’em
Know when to fold ’em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run”
That might be NOW, Poor Old. And that would not be for office. It would be for safety, somewhere, completely off the globalist game board. Loser!
Tribute to Peter Poroshenko (melody: Entrance of the Gladiatorsby Julius Fučik):
Peter Poroshenko Chocolate fatso
Ukro-Zionazi statesman had so
Plenty of Nazis
True Ashkenazis
Total squalor worthy of a bloody paparazzo
Peter Poroshenko very sadly
Lost Crimea to the Moscals badly
Ukros they foam, roam and moan and groan:
‘Stepan Bandera, love you madly’
Hopefully, this could make it to next year’s Eurovision Trash Contest right there in Kiev. Ukronazi political concerts are in vogue these days, right?
Someone in Ukraine was saying if when Minsk falls apart it is only the fault of those signatories for signing up in the first place and only these should be blamed, it ain’t Ukraine’s fault…….probably on anna-news somewhere…….
In a past life I owned a fight training gym, and was the manager of a fight team of Combat Sports fighters (probably one reason why I don’t accept weakness in responding to bullies very well).The reason I mention that is because in Russia,Ukraine,and all Eastern Europe,Combat Sports is a major sporting activity. Russia has some of the best fight promotions in Europe,if not the World. And up until 2014,Ukraine was well represented as well.Several of the best in Ukraine were in the Southeast (Novorossia) and many of the fighters sided against the junta. So now we see mostly pro-fascist promotions left in Ukraine.I was watching several videos of MMA fights in Ukraine today. And was appalled that they are now openly promoting fascism.The fighting cages are decorated with pro-nazi Azov insignia including their representation of the swastika.And some fighters even sported Azov nazi tattoos.
The importance of all that,has several dimensions.As I said European Europe is a “hotbed” of Combat Sports. Its extremely popular with young men (as is true Worldwide).The fact of the “open” display of “fascism” there. As if to say,”nothing unusual here,everything is normal” is a really bad sign. It shows that fascist groups are becoming “the norm,not the exception” there. Knowing a lot about the business,I also noticed that the set-up of the organization was very professional. And the fighting cage they used was top of the line,and very expensive.Someone had some “big bucks” to spent there.Many of the smaller promotions even in the US aren’t that well equipped. The quality of the fighters wasn’t bad either. And no one seemed to be starving in the crowd. It was well attended for a smaller show. And usually tickets aren’t that cheap for events like that. All in all,not a good sign at all.The longer fascism is allowed to stay in Ukraine,the more it will be seen as a viable and “normal” part of the country’s politics.
As an interesting sidenote: In the past,and it seems still today.Fighters used to go back and forth between promotions in Russia and in Ukraine. I saw a Ukrainian fighter on a 2015 video (well within the time of Ukraine claiming “Russia invaded them”) ,competing at an big promotion in Russia (he won BTW). Then next I saw the same fighter competing in the “Azov” decorated promotion in Ukraine (he lost that time).I’m not sure if any Russian fighters compet any longer in Ukraine. I’m not sure how safe that would be for them.If they won the fascists might attack them.But Ukrainians seem to still compete in Russia. Which is the main hub of Combat Sports in the region.
I think you make a good point about the longer the fascist stay in power the harder it will be to get them out. Especially if they start to do well people will accept the system as they have jobs money etc.
The system must be made to collapse.
A way must be found by sanctions or withdrawing of business. I can’t understand why russian businesses still operate their with the attempted burning of the russian embassy and threats to Russians living in ukraine who want to vote.
Why in earth do they carry on like all is normal
Its the same throughout history. Human’s never seem to learn from history,and constantly repeat the same mistakes.Some said in 1936,don’t let Hitler militarize the Rhineland. But France and Britain did nothing. We know now from the German records that if the French had moved troops to the border the German Generals were ready to stage a coup against Hitler.Then the takeover of Austria,some said don’t let Hitler do that,but again nothing was done. Then came Munich,and the same thing,nothing was done to stop him.After that it was too late to avoid WWII.To change the famous saying from that time a bit,”the World was offered war or dishonor,they chose dishonor,and got war as well”.We are offered the same today with the Ukrainian fascists. The dishonor of not stopping them “now”,will bring us war in the future,as well as the dishonor we have now.
Crocop’s my favourite, he fought Emelianenko which was watched by Putin, iirc.
Great video with sharp analysis.
Ukraine really is a waste of time and energy for all concerned as they will not implement Minsk 2 under threats from neo nazi therefore sanctions will continue.
Who will give in first?
It all hinges on what biden says and allows, nobody else (from the antagonist side) matters.
Until he leaves…
Actually I feel that the more openly, crazy fascist they are, the more the Ukie regime will be discredited and toppled. But maybe not, maybe fascism is now tolerated again in Europe.
Fascism is European values par excellence. The Ukros are to be lauded for being so straightforward on the subject. The EU has got the admirers it deserves.
You have a point. A rabidly anti-Russian, corporate media-influenced relative of mine has continued to pay attention to what is happening in the Ukraine, mostly because of his dispute with me. If the Ukro-nazis were not so obvious, he might never have seen what was really going on, but that and the obvious support of the US for ISIS in Syria, with Russia being the only power to take effective action against these most heinous of terrorists has caused him to slowly change his mind and start to accept some of the sources I quote.
Published on Sep 17, 2016
Crimea is Russia – deal with it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjrxaKAMuSY
Canada’s Trudeau government is as much a fan of the Poroshenko regime as Stephen Harper’s was before them. Nearly a billion dollars in ‘loans’, a free-trade deal and Canadian troop ‘trainers’ in Ukraine are the results of a kind of Canadian ultranationalist AIPAC, and include a pro-active Banderite lobby of powerful Liberals in caucus.
One of the most powerful is now the International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, currently toiling and moiling on such important files as CETA, TPP and, always, always, Ukraine. Chrystia Freeland believes Poroshenko represents the very best Ukraine has had. Ever.
“I really believe that this is the best government Ukraine has had in its entire history.”
Chrystia Freeland: Canadian and Liberal Support for Ukraine, August 2015
https://youtu.be/nQWPQqtF86A
We can only hope the Banderite diaspora’s relentless support and agitation for their governments to do so also, is exposed as evil and corrupt as the Nazi-NATO coup-regime which helped set it up into power.
Chrystia Freeland’s book, “Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else” probably isn’t worth a read unless you’re interested in deconstructing an informed sell-out.
http://www.socialist.ca/node/1612
Peculiarly, another Canadian financial journalist is cozy with Ukrainian Nazism. Well, actually she’s an American/dual citizen who wrote a book advocating a Canada-U.S.merger.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/05/well-known-canadian-journalist-visits-ukraine-and-praises-neo-nazi/
http://www.counterweights.ca/2013/10/what-diane-francis-and-friends-don%E2%80%99t-get-%E2%80%94-north-america-works-best-as-canada-mexico-and-the-united-states/
Canada and Ukrainian Nazism apparently have a longstanding friendly relationship since WWII and support for Ukraine Nazis may not be entirely out of ignorance. Its possible no amount of education will change Canadian’s minds about Banderos because there is far more extensive tacit support for Nazism in Canada than advertised.
http://m.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/04/10/canada-represents-reservoir-support-ukrainian-neo-nazis.html
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=395195
Ukrainians aren’t usually associated with Nazi racism and bigotry in Canada; rather the victims of intolerance. Ukrainians were also strongly associated with the Canadian left, fear of communism was a driver for early persecution of Ukrainians in Canada.
http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/feedback/21-11-2014/129096-canada_ukrainians-0/
http://www.utppublishing.com/Re-Imagining-Ukrainian-Canadians-History-Politics-and-Identity.html
Freeland may be an Anglo name, but Chrystia’s maternal ancestry is Catholic Ukrainian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrystia_Freeland
DNInews is asking whether Ukraine’s will or is about to put up for auction 1 million hectares of land to foreign investors………Zakharchenk yesterday was saying that after yet again a ceasefire announced by poro to start on 15th Sept if Ukraine continues to attack…..Donbass will withdraw from the “ceasefire’.
apparently ukr can now-coincidentally host eurovision, but the cost is more than it spends on childrens hospitals?
Note an anti maidan ukraine person who had to flee to russia has been murdered there………………………….http://tass.com/world/900892?_ga=1.147485182.813553340.1472135887
same old tricks
Sunday, September 18, 2016 – 12:52
The Kiev military kept in cellar an elderly resident of the DPR and her son released by the Ukrainian court, in order to exchange them for the SBU Colonel detained in Donetsk, stated the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Donetsk People’s Republic Darya Morozova.
It was reported that on the bridge at the Schastye locality controlled by the Kiev military there took place the exchange of prisoners and detainees during which the Ukrainian party released four Donbass civilians, having received two people suspected by the DPR and LPR law enforcement agencies of participation in subversive and terrorist activity.
“The SBU Colonel (Yury Suprun) was exchanged for a 75-year-old elderly lade tho had been tortured in prison. They let her and her son go. They were officially released about one and a half weeks ago by the decision of the Mariupol court, and disappeared. Even the UN human rights officials addressed me with this case. I told them the where they were staying stably in the Mariupol SBU — in a cellar. But today, as we see, they were transferred to us within another exchange,” said Morozova.
“It seems like I am released, but I’m not,” added Diana Prokofyevna born in 1941 released yesterday by the Kiev military. ”
https://dninews.com/article/kiev-illegally-held-two-civilians-captivity-especially-exchange
Starting in 2017, Ukraine will have the lowest official salaries in Europe; that’s according to calculations by lawmaker Oleksander Vilkul. Meanwhile, Ukrainian politicians and economists have begun investigating the conditions attached to the IMF’s recent $1 billion loan tranche, discovering that more austerity reforms are the order of the day.
Taking to the podium in Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, Vilkul complained that for ordinary Ukrainians, “life is getting worse and worse. A good example of this is the genocidal budget for 2017: The minimum wage of $60 [1,550 hryvnia] is the lowest in Europe. In 2013 it was three times higher.” The lawmaker also noted that the government plans to further reduce social benefits, while further hiking utilities prices, all under the guise of Ukraine’s obligations to the International Monetary Fund. “We are for international cooperation, but this should not mean the consequence of an increase in the retirement age, the growth of utilities rates and [consumer] prices. Our men live an average of 65 years. Do you want to make it so that they die immediately after retirement?” Vilkul asked. © PHOTO: YOUTUBE / 112 УКРАИНА IMF Assistance to Ukraine ‘Little More Than Mass Robbery of Its Population’ Last week, the IMF agreed to provide Ukraine with a $1 billion loan tranche, growing the country’s total external debt to $68 billion (71% of its GDP). But many Ukrainian economists and lawmakers are more concerned about the conditions of the latest loan. On Tuesday, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accused Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman of signing the IMF memorandum without reading it. The memorandum, she said, was written only in English, which Groysman does not know. Commenting on the 2017 budget, which she dubbed the ‘budget of tears’, Tymoshenko noted that even people from western Ukraine, the traditional stronghold of Ukrainian nationalism, have begun pining for the social stability and comparative prosperity under President Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted in a coup in February 2014. Paying a recent visit to the western Ukrainian region of Lviv, Tymoshenko noted that citizens there have become completely disenchanted with the country’s government, and are clamoring for things to return to the way they were before the putsch. “If the democratic forces that are now in power are incapable of running the country, they should leave, and the ‘criminal authorities’ which made people’s lives better should be returned,” Tymoshenko said, conveying the demands of Lviv residents. People in the region are openly accusing Kiev of a ‘genocidal’ social policy, she added. © SPUTNIK/ RAMIL SITDIKOV Russia to Continue Defending Own Position on Ukraine’s $3Bln Debt Although the official conditions of the IMF loan have not been publicized, sources speaking to Ukrainian media have revealed that they likely include increasing the pension age by five years, increasing the amount of time required to qualify for pensions, cancellation of old-age pensions, lifting the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land, approval of a list of state-owned enterprises subject to privatization or liquidation, changes in the law on privatization, and a quarterly upward adjustment of tariffs for utilities. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Ukraine’s population continues to face a severe decline, falling by 110,000 people between January and August to 42.6 million (it was 45.5 million in 2013). Aside from immigration, the decline has been attributed to extremely low birthrates, with only 66 live births being recorded for every 100 deaths. Speaking to the independent online newspaper Svobodnaya Pressa, Denis Denisov, director of the Ukrainian branch of the CIS Institute, explained that the fall in living standards has already been “felt very strongly” by the population. Unfortunately, he added, “international practice shows that it is possible to reduce” the catastrophically low wages, and $40 monthly pensions, even further. “This puts the majority of Ukrainians below the poverty line, and automatically entails an increase in the shadow economy, and an increase in negative tendencies in all areas of life, ranging from rising crime rates and ending with the non-repayment of loans,” the expert noted. “Over the last three years, using different methods of calculation, Ukraine’s GDP fell between 20 and 60%…Imagine it – we will be able to achieve the indicators we had in 1991 in 15 years at best.” Ukraine, Denisov lamented, “has definitively slipped into the third world, without any prospect for implementing an independent economic policy which could bring it out of the category of global outsider, at least to the level of ‘developing economy’.” © AP PHOTO/ EVGENIY MALOLETKA Kiev’s Epiphany: Russia Trade Losses Equal to Country’s Entire Budget For his part, former Rada MP Spiridon Kilinkarov suggested that while former Prime Minister Tymoshenko is obviously attempting to increase her political rating, she’s not wrong in pointing out the growing social discontent across the country. “Discontent exists, and it is very strong,” the ex-MP noted. “People long for stability. They are tired of the uncertainty which has reigned over the past two and a half years. They are tired of the economic crisis, and of lawmakers’ nonsense, which they cannot understand. They are tired of this circus of a parliament. All of this is perceived very negatively by society. Therefore, talk about ‘the old authorities coming back’ seems quite natural to me. Back then, there was stability, and confidence in the future. There were jobs, and no war.” The presence of such feelings in western Ukraine, initially a strong point for the Maidan coup that toppled Yanukovych, is also understandable, Kilinkarov noted. “Let me remind you that when the conflict in Donbass started, it was young people from western regions of the country who were mobilized. And it was here that the coffins [of those killed] returned. People haven’t forgotten this…On the eve of the presidential election, [Petro] Poroshenko promised to end the bloodshed in the east in two weeks. The conflict is still going on… And authorities’ rhetoric, including that of the president, is limited to reaction. Nobody explains where the exit from this situation is – when it will all end…Hence the feelings of hopelessness, and nostalgia for life as it was before.”
Read more: https://sputniknews.com/europe/20160921/1045545519/ukraine-economic-woes-austerity.html