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Who will accept Yanukovych if he has to leave Ukraine?
Governors and mayors, members of the Party of Regions, are tired of portraying a monolithic unity of position. Everyone rushed to equip the entrusted territory for personal plans and opportunities
Supporters of a tough hand like Putin's, people of the Soviet mentality, for whom the words "Ukrainian" and "Bandera" are the same root (there are still more of them in the east, south and southeast of the country), disappointed. Yanukovych, in their opinion, betrayed his electorate, did not immediately disperse the "criminal gang" in Kyiv and is still crumpling, prolonging the crisis.
The party in power and its core, the faction in the Rada, although it did not crumble under the weight of the situation (only a few deputies asked to leave), but noticeably changed their behavior. Regionals no longer repeat "party", meaning "Yanukovych". Life is longer and more expensive than a political career. Moreover, there are reasons to believe that a democratic platform will arise in the PR, similar to the one in the CPSU before the death of the Union ...
The dismissed government of Azarov (the ministers, including the power bloc, have the status of interim) is even less willing to share the hardships of the revolutionary period, save the economy and the falling hryvnia. Faithful cabinet surrendered to Maidan? Well, Tyagnibok is in his side! According to sources close to the Security Service of Ukraine, in the courtyard of the central office, on Volodymyrska Street, archives of units that oversee the activities of opposition parties, individual politicians and journalists, as well as materials related to agents, are already being destroyed by burning. A similar order was received on the ground. Novaya Gazeta was informed that a similar event took place in the regional department of the SBU in Sumy.
Governors and mayors, members of the Party of Regions, are tired of portraying a monolithic unity of position. Everyone rushed to equip the entrusted territory for personal plans and opportunities. In Kharkov, Gennady Kernes creates a kind of “Ukrainian Front” to fight fascism, in Crimea, Anatoly Mogilev advocates expanding the rights of autonomy up to possible isolation from the rebellious center of the country, in Donetsk, Anatoly Shishatsky, on the contrary, condemns the idea of federalization of Ukraine. Like, if we split now, we will destroy everything that we have acquired.
The oligarchs, including the iconic Rinat Akhmetov and Dmitry Firtash, do not signify support for Viktor Yanukovych by word or deed. Business spending on the incumbent President has long exceeded the limits, the Family's appetite is simply indecent. The West, according to the Ukrainian media, did not impose sanctions, but advised the oligarchs whose real estate, families and bank cells are located abroad to lose interest in this person, especially in connection with the 2015 elections or an early campaign. On Viktor Yanukovych, the light did not converge like a wedge. Therefore, the experts, no, no, yes, and they will touch on a fantastic topic: who will accept the guarantor if he has to leave the borders of the fatherland?
Marat Gelman (in 2004, he helped the candidate from the government as a political strategist) believes that Yanukovych has irretrievably lost support for Putin, having angered him with blackmail, bargaining, and playing at European integration. The loneliness of Viktor Fedorovich with a blue-yellow flag on the podium in Sochi, the conversation with the owner, carelessly emphasized by the Kremlin press service, somewhere “on the fields of the Olympics”, the refusal of the second tranche of the loan - “First pay for the gas!” ... Smart is enough. Yanukovych did not become pro-Russian, in addition, even having received money and advice, he did not destroy the Maidan as an example to follow. Save this?!
For similar reasons, Lukashenka will not lend a hand either. On the contrary - Europe and the USA. Who remains - China, with the leadership of which Viktor Fedorovich became close in peacetime? Turkmen friend (according to Yanukovych) Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov? The opposition, meanwhile, is frightening: there are enough materials for the tribunal in The Hague, and that's where they will "receive" the President of Ukraine.
Yanukovych's phobias are exacerbated to the extreme. As an example, a visit on February 4, World Cancer Day, to the children's department at the National Cancer Institute. Tow trucks dragged parked cars away from the entrance, security blocked the passage between the buildings, filled the corridors, parents were not allowed into the pits. And everyone, without exception, including the president, Minister of Health Bogatyryova, bureaucratic retinue and little patients after chemotherapy, were without medical masks. Viruses, deadly with reduced immunity, were feared differently than threats to the life of the first person?
However, political analyst Vitaly Bala cites research data: more than 3% of the adult population of the country openly declare that they are ready to take up arms. And the well-known sociologist, director of the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Irina Bekeshkina, literally asks the protesters not to drive Yanukovych into a corner with the choice of "sink or disappear." “He needs to be given security guarantees, and under the guarantee of European mediators. Moreover, leave him Mezhyhirya. Let him go in peace."
Kyiv