Det skulle för övrigt vara väldigt intressant att höra vad de som stödjer Putins aggression har för förslag till ekonomiska lösningar för Ukraina som nation. Till att börja med: vad bör göras för att undvika en statsbankrutt? Oligarkerna har hitintills framför allt profiterat genom att göra affärer med sina kollegor, Putins goda vänner, i Ryssland. Men Janukovitjregimens och de övriga oligarkernas girighet och ekonomiska kriminalitet under de senaste åren har försatt nationen i ett sådant ekonomiskt krisläge att statsbankrutten är överhängande.
En sak kan vi i alla fall vara säkra på - med Janukovitj och hans uppbackare Putin som den politiska verkligheten för Ukraina under de närmaste åren så hade oligarkerna suttit säkert, och fortsatt profitera genom arbetarexploatering och export av undermåliga varor i första hand till Ryssland, Vitryssland, Kazakstan, Sovjetunionens reststater:
http://www.ibtimes.com/ukrainian-oligarchs-stay-above-fray-let-crisis-play-out-1558121?ft=o717s
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So far, the oligarchs have escaped the ire of the public, carefully hedging their bets and keeping their profile low. And the new government shaping up in Ukraine is unlikely to openly antagonize them -- for now.
“I am not sure they will escape public anger,” said Andrew Gardner, an editor with European Voice in Brussels and an Eastern Europe expert. “The Maidan shows a huge constituency for deep change. One lesson that the oligarchs will hopefully take away from the Maidan is that they tested the public’s patience too much. If they test it again, they -- rather than Yanukovych -- could become targets.”
Political expediency may have helped the oligarchs too. “The democrats are too smart to alienate the oligarchs, who control some 80 to 85 percent of GDP,” said Alexander Motyl, a political science professor at Rutgers University and a Ukraine expert. “Several oligarchs, and especially Yanukovych's key backer, Rinat Akhmetov, spoke out for peaceful solutions. They were obviously signaling to both Yanukovych and the democratic opposition that they did not approve of violence.”
However, Motyl added, except for Poroshenko, no one actually sided with the opposition. “When, several weeks ago, some 80 deputies aligned with Akhmetov and Firtash threatened to rebel, Yanukovych cowed them and they stepped back.”
The oligarchs can claim little credit for Yanukovych's downfall. “On the other hand, by not supporting violence they have also managed to escape the wrath of the people, who want the regime members who ordered or condoned the killings brought to justice,” Motyl said.
Good relations with the government are good for business, so the new order in Kiev has little to fear from the tycoons in terms of resistance. “They will, I suspect, continue to make nice so as to escape whatever sanctions might be applied to them in the future,” Motyl said.
Much the same can be said about the tycoons’ vision for Ukraine’s place in the international polity. Being on good terms with the East and the West has paid off for the oligarchs and nothing indicates that will change in the future. While the EU and the U.S. were quick to provide moral support for the opposition in Ukraine, European solidarity seems to be cooling off now that the interim government has requested $35 billion in emergency aid at a time when the EU has still not emerged from its own financial difficulties.
Ukraine’s future may still lie in the East, where the billionaires have their mines and factories, and their biggest markets.
“The oligarchs really make their money primarily at industrial enterprises in Eastern Ukraine that were built in Soviet times,” CPS’ Zakharova said. “Due to the low and outdated standards of their output, exports from such enterprises are largely oriented to Russia and CIS countries… from this point of view, one can consider that oligarchs are not interested in the EU association.”
But the tycoons will be careful not to frustrate their neighbors to the West. “The Family has transferred to Europe a number of assets pillaged in the Ukraine,” Zakharova said.
According to Chatham House’s Lutsevych, “it is fair” to describe the Ukrainian crisis as a result of the politics of pillaging. “Yanukovych and the rich would use public office to build monopolies and benefit from them,” she said. “Corruption in the Ukraine skyrocketed and corporate raiding increased.”
According to Olena Zakharova, director of the foreign policy department at the International Centre for Policy Studies in Kiev, “The Ukrainian economy has been pillaged by the oligarchs during all the years after independence, and this process reached its highest point during Yanukovych’s presidency.” She added that “all the money flows were oriented to the ‘Family’ oligarchs, first of all Yanukovych’s son Oleksandr, young Family representative Serhiy Kurchenko, Yanukovych’s right-hand man Andriy Kliuyev, and others. The other oligarchs had to share their businesses and assets with the Family in order to survive and have the possibility to profit from the state budget, which has put the country on the edge of bankruptcy.”---
