Poroshenko decisive action removes Governor Kolomisky
BY NINA JEGLINSKI
Tagesspiegel.de
Source: Entlässt einflussreichen Gouverneur
Photo: Mikhail Palinchak / AP
Translation: MillennialMonitor.com
Ukraine’s president removes the powerful oligarch Igor Kolomoiski from direct political power as the country struggles to build an an independent federal executive branch of government. 
Kiev’s power struggle with the Ukraine oligarchs: President Petro Poroshenko has dismissed the governor of Dnipropetrovsk oblast and oligarchs Igor Kolomoiski.
The president’s press office releases photo of Poroshenko signing the Poroschenkos spread of a video can be seen on the certificate of release for Kolomoiski with the words Thank you.
Across the table sits the oligarch and looking dumbfounded.
The press office says the oligarch had even asked for his dismissal. He is regarded as one of the main financiers of Ukrainian troops fighting the pro-Russian separatists.
[Russia has an outstanding warrant for Kolomoiski’s arrest on charges he killed civilians.]
The financial interests of the powerful billionaire Kolomoiski include empire Privat the oil market in the country largely controlled. One of the largest banks. Ukrainian parliament about a third of the deputies should have under his supervision fell from a total of more restrained.
Last week Kolomoiski had come under pressure because its security team at the be semi-state energy company Ukrnafta and Ukrtransnafta alarmed Kjev [by blocking entry to the headquarters]. The dispute between the Ukrainian government and the country’s energy sector escalated dramatically.
Disarmament of private armies
Together with his followers he had the Ukrainian government repeatedly criticized and called the reforms announced. Kolomoiski had argued for a decentralization of powers in Kiev. In Kiev, but broke out last surprise that spoke of the “protector of eastern Ukraine” and “fighters against encroachments of Russia”‘
He called for dialogue with the rebels in the Donbass.
While several of Kolomoiskis followers in Dnipropetrovsk and in Kiev left their posts, left it at others in simpler gestures. Anton Gerashchenko as the chief advisor to the Minister of the Interior, wrote on his Facebook page that Ukraine was Kolomoiski to “extremely grateful, because the governor last summer has made sure to stop the separatists”.
A similar thanks came from the deputy head of parliament, Andrei Parubiy. He called Kolomoiski a “true patriot of Ukraine, has built a bulwark against the enemies.”
Under sharp Russian criticism Poroshenko had named Kolomoiski the billionaire after the change of government in governor in the eastern Ukrainian oblast after coming into power last year. He prevented the Russian leading Dnipropetrovsk region – such as the neighboring regions Donetsk and Luhansk – from separating.
These Kolomoiski had used him privately funded Hundreds. Ever get the private armies in Ukraine increasingly criticized because they do not listen to the command center of power in Kiev. Poroshenko now announced the disarmament and abolition of these units – as demanded by Russia for a long time.
For the parliamentarian Mustafa Naidem of the Poroshenko’s party Kolomoiskis removal marks only the beginning:
“The crusade against oligarchs who assert their influence on politicians and on the economy by all means, now has only just begun,” he wrote on Facebook.
Nevertheless, believe in Ukraine is not a lot to it that the powerful oligarchs will just leave degrade so.
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