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Ursprungligen postat av
OldWolf
Jag skrev förmodligen, liksom USA/Nato förmodligen också vet. Bråken på Maidan var säkert lika välbevakat av säkerhetsfolk från öst och väst, som OS av journalister. Kalla det för foliehattsteori om du vill. Jag kallar det en teori.
Om Kreml, Vita Huset och NATO enligt vad du tror känner till att samma krypskyttar på Maidan sköt ihjäl såväl Berkutpoliser som upprorsmän, vilka var då dessa krypskyttar? Anlitade av vem?
Oligarkerna i Ukraina stal som sagt i samband med sovjetsystemets implosion främst tillgångar och infrastruktur i östra Ukraina, där gruvnäringen och den tunga industrin finns. En färsk The Guardian-artikel funderar över implikationerna när ett par av dessa skrupelfria individer nu av interimregeringen utnämnts till guvernörer i den regionen för att försöka stävja de av inbussade ryska medborgare igångsatta oroligheterna, som innefattat rop på rysk invasion:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/08/ukraine-oligarchs-appointments-new-fairness
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Following days of unrest, including pro-Russia rallies and the storming of the parliament building in Donetsk by Moscow's supporters, the region now seems to be slowly calming down. Pro-Russia squatters have now been removed from the administration building, and on the orders of the newly appointed regional governor and Ukraine's 16th-richest man, Serhiy Taruta, the pro-Kremlin activists' leader, Pavel Gubarev, has been arrested.
In a further sign that the environment in the east is stabilising, boxing heavyweight turned politician Vitali Klitschko has a visit to Donetsk scheduled for Sunday. "People here respect power, the oligarchs are wealthy, well known and well respected. They are seen as guarantors of stability," says local journalist Denis Tkachenko.
But for those active in Kiev's Euromaidan, or Independence Square, protests, putting businessmen into positions of power may not have been what they dreamed of. "This is the most controversial step of the new government – it is a risky gamble," says Serhiy Leshchenko, deputy chief editor of Ukrainian newspaper Pravda, and an investigative journalist who has spent decades analysing Ukraine's business and political elite.
Political analysts say the vulnerable fledgling government, under attack from Moscow, may have had no other option open to it. "Those who think there was an alternative are not being realistic. Now the Party of the Regions [the pro-Russian party led by Yanukovych] has effectively gone, the oligarchs are the only actors with potential to stabilise this region," says Adam Swain, economic geographer at the University of Nottingham and a field researcher in Donetsk for more than 20 years.
Many of Ukraine's oligarchs, an elite club of around a dozen billionaires, amassed their wealth following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Rich in natural resources, Ukraine's east became a battleground for influence as a new generation of entrepreneurs vied for ownership of lucrative factories and coal and steel mines.
A lot has changed since then. The oligarchs' investments have bolstered the region's economy substantially. "Donetsk today is almost unrecognisable to the place I first visited in the 90s," says Swain. "The infrastructure and standard of living have improved immensely. The oligarchs have won respect here for their role in this."
