WiZeus > Religious Affairs | Katriuk2012 | Video Links | Perfidy | Book Reviews | Putin Files >

UkeTube | 03May2016 | Taras Kuzio  [06:19], [2], [3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xi1J-gVfF0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4rqd_57vE   [13:31]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn4CZCdycvY [5:12]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drEURV3fxqs  [26:21] -- [4] 13Feb2016 interview

Oligarchs block reform in Ukraine, cause tension in society

UkeTube

Published on 4 May 2016
Remarks by Dr. Taras Kuzio, Senior Research Associate, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Kyiv, Ukraine, 3 May 2016.

- Oligarchs in Ukraine only loyal to themselves and their empires, not to the Ukrainian state or political party. Oligarchs in Ukraine are not pro-Western or pro-Russian. will work with whomever is in power
- 1:06 Gas lobby in Ukraine. Dmytro Firtash is from Ternopil
- 1:26 Petro Poroshenko
- 1:26 Yulia Tymoshenko
- 2:42 Do not underestimate political maturity of Ukrainian voters
- 2:55 Oligarchs in Ukraine are afraid reform. Rinat Akhmetov, Dmytro Firtash, and Ihor Kolomoyskyi (Ігор Коломойський) are the worst oligarchs afraid that progressive judicial reforms will expose how they acquired their wealth. Need to control the prosecutors office in Ukraine
- 3:39 What skin off of Poroshenko's nose to put a few Berkut officers in jail?
- 4:29 Oligarchs are insecure people, know the population dislike them, know the population believes they accumulated in a corrupt and illegal manner. Society does not trust them
- 4:56 Never discount the greed of Ukrainian oligarchs. Politics and business are closely intertwined. Importance of influence with the President of Ukraine
- 5:40 Oligarchs and elites have to become accountable in order for Ukraine to move forward. Never in history, e.g. Tsarist Russia, Soviet Union, post-Soviet Ukraine, have they ever been accountable to society

This video was not sponsored.

Video by UkeTube


[2]
UkeTube | 03May2016 | Taras Kuzio  [13:31]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4rqd_57vE   [13:31]

Poroshenko & Yushchenko failed their revolutions: Time for change

UkeTube

Published on 3 May 2016
Remarks by Dr. Taras Kuzio, Senior Research Associate, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Kyiv, Ukraine, 3 May 2016.

- Ukraine in 2016 looks similar to Ukraine in 2007-2008. Growing disenchantment with President Poroshenko to implement the demands of the Euromaidan. Ukraine fatigue
- 0:46 Ukrainian authorities unable to fulfill the demands for justice and fighting corruption. Revolution of dignity
- 1:11 The same kind of people came to power after the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan Revolution. National democratic political forces: pragmatists (businessmen), romantic/radical/revolutionary (Tymoshenko)
- 2:10 Oligarch friendly forces.
- 2:45 No one has gone to jail for bankrupting Ukraine, murdering protesters, & committing treason
- 3:21 Viktor Yushchenko, Svyatoslav Piskun (Святослав Пискун), Oleksandr Medvedko (Олександр Медведько)
- 3:35 Petro Poroshenko, Vitaly Yarema (Віталій Ярема), Viktor Shokin (Віктор Шокін)
- 4:35 Ukrainian leaders never told oligarchs "Not business as usual. Here are the new rules". Status quo prevails
- 5:00 Ukraine is a personal colony with cheap labour, profits are milked and sent abroard. $11.5 billion illegally exported from Ukraine. Permanent large shadow economy has kept Ukraine broke
- 6:01 Oligarch friendly Presidents Yushchenko and Poroshenko have failed Ukraine. New political forces have to come to power
- 6:45 Four political parties are needed and on the rise: Batkivschina (Батьківщина), Self Reliance (Самопоміч), Mikheil Saakashvili (Міхеїл Саакашвілі), Syla Narodu
- 7:40 Former PM Yatsniuk's political party has collapsed
- 8:14 Ukraine's voters are very politically mature
- 8:50 Without reform will be continual tension in society and a continual threat of revolution every decade. Paralysis and tension between two groups: Pro-European forces and the State which does not change
- 10:18 Information space in Ukraine is quite free. Panama papers
- 11:00 Criminal investigations do not take place in Ukraine once investigators report on corruption. Cycle of revolution, disenchantment, stagnation and counter revolution hanging over Ukraine's head

This video was not sponsored.

Video by UkeTube


[3]
UkeTube | 03May2016 | Taras Kuzio  [5:12]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn4CZCdycvY  [5:12]

Oligarchs in Ukraine fear Yulia Tymoshenko the most

UkeTube

Published on 3 May 2016
Remarks by Dr. Taras Kuzio, Senior Research Associate, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Kyiv, Ukraine, 3 May 2016.

- Oligarchs fear Yulia Tymoshenko the most
- 0:30 Yanukovych destroyed everything Yushchenko stood for
- 0:40 Gas lobby, Firtash, Klitschko, Poroshenko
- 1:20 Complete disenchantment in Ukrainian society
- 1:56 State disintegration, Russian invasion, loss of Crimea
- 2:30 Ukraine is overcoming its economic difficulties
- 2:40 It took decades for big business to be brought under control in Western countries. Bernie Sanders
- 3:50 Poroshenko will not have a second presidential term. Leonid Kuchma

This video was not sponsored.

Video by UkeTube


[4]
UkeTube | 13Feb2016 | Taras Kuzio  [26:21]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drEURV3fxqs

Ukraine: Time for new relationship with oligarchs?

UkeTube

Published on 19 Feb 2016
Full remarks by Dr. Taras Kuzio, Senior Research Associate, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, London, UK, 13 February 2016.

- Post Yanukovych era had two battles:: 1) Russian invasion, 2) Corruption & abuse of office (annexation of Crimea, invasion of Donbas), battle against high level abuse of office, corruption
- 1:08 Battle against Russia was won. Won by volunteer battalions, civil society in Ukraine, civil society groups
- 2:04 Ukrainian army was depleted, SBU, Russian FSB, society defeated Putin's aggression and Putin's New Russia. Putin did not get his "new Russia"
- 3:17 Battle of Ilovaisk, Battle of Debaltseve
- 3:30 Poroshenko relied on old Soviet generals
- 3:50 Battle against corruption and high level abuse of office has been a failure. Resignation of the Minister of Economy
- 5:00 Financial Times, political instability
- 5:50 Munich security conference
- 6:10 Russian world, trade agreement with the European Union
- 7:40 Civil society in Ukraine are mature
- 8:00 Deaths, casualties, suffering on Maidan and Russian war in Ukraine. Orange Revolution

This video was not sponsored.

Video by UkeTube Ukrainian video