Sipping espresso in the O’Panas restaurant in Kiev, Vadym Karasyov, formerly an adviser to Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine’s president after the Orange revolution, takes endless calls from journalists and clients in both Ukraine and Russia, concerned about the precarious state of the relationship between the two countries.
Under recently ousted president Viktor Yanukovich, the oligarchs’ interests were threatened by his “Family” of owners of interlinked companies. These interests are now likely to be shared out among the remaining tycoons. “Today they can say they are Ukrainian patriots who are making sure the country stays united,” says Karasyov. ... “All of the oligarchs were financing the protests. European association suits them well as it expands the metallurgical quota for Pinchuk and Akhmetov, both of whom have already done so much to legalise their capital in the west,” says Karasyov, who is also Ukraine’s best-known TV political pundit. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1a06857a-ae60-11e3-aaa6-00144feab7de.html _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
