Crisis in Kiev

KIEV/BERLIN (Own report) – A serious government crisis is shaking up a pro-western Ukraine. Yesterday, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk barely survived a no-confidence vote, after President Petro Poroshenko urged him to resign. Hundreds had assembled in front of the parliament building to protest against his policies, which are impoverishing large sectors of the population. Lately, people have been particularly upset over the hike in gas prices – making, for many, heating throughout the icy Ukrainian winter an expensive luxury. Berlin and Washington are worried that the country will no longer be controllable, due to the disastrous economic situation and the dramatic loss of popularity of the President and government. Western powers have therefore begun to call on Kiev to get serious about fighting corruption. Spectacular resignations of several ministers and the deputy general prosecutor have provided greater urgency to this demand and accentuated the government crisis over the past few months and the last few days, with no solution in sight. The formation of a “government of technocrats” under a longtime western diplomat is in discussion, in other words, Kiev would be placed directly under western control.

Ukraine hands foreigners government posts

It should also be important to note that Poroshenko was likely brought to power by yours truly, George Soros (see also HERE and HERE for plenty of info), a convicted felon banned from France (and five other countries) who likes to play king-maker in getting presidents elected by funneling millions of dollars through front organizations and also tries to break national currencies such as the British Pound.

 

Kiev: Ukraine has handed foreigners, including a US citizen, top posts in a new reformist government it says is aimed at rooting out endemic corruption.

President Petro Poroshenko told a marathon parliament hearing on Tuesday that Ukraine has to learn from “foreign experience” as it tries to climb out of bankruptcy that many blame on decades of political gridlock and graft.

He then signed decrees awarding Ukrainian citizenship to US national Natalie Jaresko – the head of a private equity fund whom parliament confirmed as finance minister – and Lithuanian investment banker and new economy chief Aivaras Abromavicius.