The vultures in and around Ukraine
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UPDATED: Tuesday, December 30, 2025 16:46
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
So you REALLY DON'T CARE if the vast majority of people live short miserable lives while very few are astronomically wealthy and powerful, or if instead the vast majority have decent lives to look forward to. Well, now we know what you stand for.
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Your (sic) a fucking moron: who gives a shit?
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Squabbling over the barely breathing carcass of the Ukrainian economy, vulture oligarchs pick it apart, one bloody bit at a time: Kolomoysky attempts to grab Ukraine's oil industry, UkrNafta, by taking control of headquarters in Kiev. Kolomoysky is the third-richest man in Ukraine, has triple citizenship in Ukraine, Israel, and Cyprus, and runs his empire from Switzerland. It was his natgas firm, Burisma, that offered a seat on the Board to Hunter Biden (Joe Biden's son).
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Kolomyski has used Privat's "quasi-military forces" to enforce hostile takeovers of companies, sending a team of "hired rowdies armed with baseball bats, iron bars, gas and rubber bullet pistols and chainsaws" to forcibly take over a Kremenchuk steel plant in 2006,[25] and has used "a mix of phony court orders (often involving corrupt judges and/or registrars) and strong-arm tactics" to replace directors on the boards of companies he purchases stakes in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi
Devin Ackles: Kolomoisky should be punished over his UkrNafta power play
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Late last night, March 20, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk oblast, Ihor Kolomoisky, dispatched a group of masked men in military fatigues with bulletproof vests and black bags that, by all appearances, may have held weapons to the headquarters of oil pipeline operator UkrTransNafta in Kyiv and blockaded themselves inside for several hours.
Kolomoisky later justified his actions in a highly offensive interview to several journalists outside of UkrTransNafta’s headquarters, a state-owned company that produces a majority of Ukraine’s oil and a large share of its gas, by saying he was protecting the state enterprise from “Russian saboteurs.”
The interview conducted by Radio Svoboda has already sent Ukrainian media into a frenzy.
In the video, after being asked what the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was doing there that late at night, Kolomoisky launched into a tirade of vulgar language, ad hominem attacks and insults against the interviewer and even member of parliament Serhiy Leshchenko (a former investigative journalist who has a long history with Kolomoisky).
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor and billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky talks to Radio Svoboda jounrliats [sic] near the office of the Ukrtransnafta late on March 19.
Kolomoisky, who helped found and financially support some of the first volunteer battalions to fight separatist and Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, has enjoyed a high level of popularity among many Ukrainians and supporters of Ukraine for his service to the nation in its time of need.
His role in stopping a separatist republic from popping up in Dnipropetrovsk and throughout other areas of eastern and central Ukraine was no doubt instrumental in keeping the country from descending into further chaos at a time when it looked like Kyiv could lose control over large swathes of territory following the annexation of Crimea.
Yet the governor’s decision to use the threat of armed violence to contest Ukrainian law and the legitimacy of its lawmakers is simply unacceptable and the authorities in Kyiv, and their partners in Washington D.C. and Brussels, must not ignore the threat that his actions pose to Ukraine and the future of its reforms.
The Battle for UkrNafta
Why the sudden concern over UkrTransNafta? On March 19, the Verkhovna Rada passed a new law “On Joint Stock Companies (on the payment of dividends of joint stock companies)” by a large margin of 275 votes (none opposing), a law that received overwhelming support from all of the ruling coalition’s parties.
The law is an important one for reforming the country’s state-owned joint stock companies – companies that the state hold a controlling share of a company’s stocks (more than 50 percent).
In essence, the new law lowers the number of shareholders present needed to have a vote at a shareholders meeting from “not less than 60 percent” to “more than 50 percent.” In other words, 51 percentNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
HERE is a very detailed article about the banksters, oligarchs and Nazis who made up the post-Maidan government of Kiev. It was written a year ago, I hadn't seen it until now, but is prescient in directing its attention to who will matter in Ukraine in the following year.
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Is the West DIRECTLY Responsible for the Massacres In Ukraine?
Eric Zuesse
The key person behind the May 2nd massacre inside Odessa’s Trade Unions Building appears to have been Ihor Kolomoyskyi
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
who was appointed to be the regional governor in that area by Yulia Tymoshenko, the Ukrainian Presidential candidate that the Obama Administration has apparently been hoping will win the May 25th election to take over the Ukrainian Government, from the junta that the Obama Administration imposed in Ukraine on February 22nd. Just weeks before this coup, on February 4th, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Asia, Victoria Nuland, chose Tymoshenko’s ally Arseni Yatsenyuk to head the post-coup interim government, which appointed Kolomoyskyi.
Photo courtesy of the White House
Only a few months before this coup, Nuland had asserted that U.S. taxpayers had already invested more than $5 billion, in order to bring “democracy” to Ukraine, by which she was referring to the U.S. effort to oust the Russian-oriented, democratically elected, leader of Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych, who had prosecuted and imprisoned Tymoshenko for embezzlement and abuse of governmental office. Tymoshenko was then on 11 October 2011 sentenced to seven years in prison, and was ordered to pay the government restitution of $188 million. She was released from prison less than three years later, two days after the coup, on 24 February 2014. The Ukrainian criminal code was immediately changed, in order to legalize the actions for which Tymoshenko had been imprisoned. This allowed Tymoshenko to run for the Ukrainian Presidency. She had been Prime Minister 2007-2010. Both she and her husband, Oleksandr Tymoshenko, and his father, all three of whom were on the board of United Energy Systems of Ukraine (and thus Ms. Tymoshenko was called “the gas princess”), have been legally prosecuted as embezzling state funds; but so have most of Ukraine’s oligarchs and political leaders (and there’s a lot of crossover between those two categories).
Kolomoyskyi, who lives in Geneva Switzerland, is generally regarded as the second-richest man in Ukraine, with a fortune estimated at about $6 billion. Tymoshenko used to be called “the Eleven Billion Dollar Woman,” but, like all of Ukraine’s oligarchs (including Kolomoyskyi), nobody really knows precisely how wealthy she is, nor even whether she is more, or perhaps less, wealthy than Kolomoyskyi. Almost all of the oligarchs’ money is hidden offshore; so, is invisible.
Most of Ukraine’s oligarchs live in Geneva (like Kolomoyskyi), London (like the Tymoshenkos’ daughter, Yevhenia), NYC, Rome, and other Western cities, and they tend to stash their money in secret bank accounts in tax-haven countries, not only in order to avoid paying taxes, but also in order to make more difficult their being successfully sued by each other, for violating handshake business deals that had helped them to become so rich. After all, illegal contracts cannot be enforced by any legal government (since they’re illegal, and have secret illegal terms). Thus, other means than written contracts — handshake deals — are resorted to between these aristocrats.
For example, in one such case, a Ukrainian oligarch who lives in London, Victor Pinchuk (whose fortune is around $4 billion), is suing Kolomoyskyi by alleging him to have sold him a company, “KZhRK,” for $143 million, and then to have re-seized it from him by force of arms. As is usual (since virtually all of Ukraine’s oligarchs had become oligarchs from the privatizations, or sell-oNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Yeah, like THOSE guys are in Ukraine! Jeez, you're only about 50 years behind the times!
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One of them is and he is no better than the other two.
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Stalin is in Ukraine? I thought he was in the ground.
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As usual, THUGR, what you think and post is so far removed from reality, one can only classify it as "propaganda".
So, in the intermediate struggle for wealth, Poroshenko wins over Kolomoysky. Poroshenko fired Kolomoysky as governor of Dnipropetrovsk, and had a minister jailed, right in the Rada.
So when it comes to negotiating with the bondholders, (which they are doing right now, or will be in a week) represented by Franklin Templeton, Rothschilds & Cie Banque, and the various national bondholders (such as Russia) there will be less confusion on the Ukrainian side of the table as regards to who as what right to sell off which assets and pocket the proceeds.
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