Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has dismissed Dnipropetrovsk Governor Igor Kolomoisky, the official website of the Ukrainian president announced.
"Igor Valeryevich Kolomoisky is dismissed from the post of chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration," RIA Novosti cited the decree.
According to the head of state, Valentin Reznichenko has been appointed as acting governor of Dnipropetrovsk.
On March 19, Ukrtransnafta’s supervisory board dismissed Alexander Lazorko as head of the company’s board, following which the building of the company was seized by gunmen led by Kolomoisky.
"Ukraine is rolled under the flag of European integration to the times of anarchy and oligarchy. There is no democracy here," the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Chairman of the Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots, Leonid Slutsky said.
According to Slutsky, in such a situation Ukraine can expect further turmoils and civil unrest, but not in the name of upholding democratic values and for the sake of oligarchs. "It is possible that soon will see a new oligarchic maidan. And according the events in Ukraine, Poroshenko have to ask for military assistance to the West not to crush the resistance of Donbass militias,but to confront the pocket army of Kolomoiskiy," TASS cited him as saying.
According to the political scientist Alexey Poltorakov, President Poroshenko hinted not only to Mr. Kolomoisky, but also to all other oligarchs that the state is going to tighten the macroeconomic nuts and optimize the system for obtaining superprofits". "As for the prospect of returning to the 90's, which Kolomoisky created by his seizure of Ukrnafta, the President has shown that a hard raider scenario is not taking place and the government will doing everything not to return to such scenarios," the expert said, adding that this is not the end of the confrontation between the head of state and the oligarch."The dismissal was the peak event of their conflict, and I want to believe that there won't be such an open, almost power opposition," Poltorakov believes.The political scientist said that Igor Kolomoisky is one of the key oligarchs in Ukraine. "He has, in fact, his own group in the Verkhovna Rada. The Odessa governor is his creature. He has Dnipropetrovsk and tried to get in the military-economic dimension, as a general sponsor of the Dnepr-1 battalion. Kolomoisky has PrivatBank, the largest in terms of the number of ATMs and branches, so he almost controls the entire financial system of Ukraine. Also, he is now fighting for the power legacy of the oligarchs who rose under Yanukovych. In view of such powerful ambitions, there is a risk that he might repeat the fate of another native of Dnepropetrovsk, Pavlo Lazarenko, who was also dismissed," Alexey Poltorakov said.
According to the political scientist Alexey Poltorakov, President Poroshenko hinted not only to Mr. Kolomoisky, but also to all other oligarchs that the state is going to tighten the macroeconomic nuts and optimize the system for obtaining superprofits". "As for the prospect of returning to the 90's, which Kolomoisky created by his seizure of Ukrnafta, the President has shown that a hard raider scenario is not taking place and the government will doing everything not to return to such scenarios," the expert said, adding that this is not the end of the confrontation between the head of state and the oligarch.
"The dismissal was the peak event of their conflict, and I want to believe that there won't be such an open, almost power opposition," Poltorakov believes.
The political scientist said that Igor Kolomoisky is one of the key oligarchs in Ukraine. "He has, in fact, his own group in the Verkhovna Rada. The Odessa governor is his creature. He has Dnipropetrovsk and tried to get in the military-economic dimension, as a general sponsor of the Dnepr-1 battalion. Kolomoisky has PrivatBank, the largest in terms of the number of ATMs and branches, so he almost controls the entire financial system of Ukraine. Also, he is now fighting for the power legacy of the oligarchs who rose under Yanukovych. In view of such powerful ambitions, there is a risk that he might repeat the fate of another native of Dnepropetrovsk, Pavlo Lazarenko, who was also dismissed," Alexey Poltorakov said.
The Director of the Center for Applied Political Studies 'Penta', Vladymyr Fesenko, in his turn, said that the resignation is a compromise between the government and the oligarchs. "Kolomoisky went for it himself, so they have reached a compromise. Recurrences are possible: there are people in Kolomoiskiy's team who love participating in conflicts. And Kolomoisky likes it too. But conflict with the state means exposing your own business to great risk. I think he understands this, so his real answer is, for example, revenge at the local elections," the expert suggested.
"Also, he can block any government actions by purely corporate and legal tools to protect his position in the same Ukrnafta. Surely Kolomoisky will try to appoint his man mayor of Dnipropetrovsk and to get a majority in the Dnipropetrovsk regional council, to get his people into other local councils in the regions. This is possible, but it would be risky for him to engage in open, direct war with the state, and I think he understands the risks," Fesenko said.
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