A former Soviet intelligence officer and now an American financial analyst Yuri Shvets told "Gordon" that in spite of the official biography, the Russian president has never worked in intelligence office because of "below average abilities", about what nicknames Putin had in the KGB and what two papers signed by US President would be enough to derail the economy of Russia.
The former Head of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defence, General of the Army of Ukraine Yevgeny Marchuk said in the interview to the GORDON why the West fears to provide Ukrainian army with defence weapons, how the Russian president Vladimir Putin blackmails world leaders and what the former Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov really said in his interview.
Terrorists will not recognize the line elaborated by Ukraine, and there will be another round of conflict escalation, considers the blogger from Donetsk and journalist Denis Kazansky.
The "special status" of some Donbass regions is one of the main achievements of the second part of the Minsk accords, the Donetsk activist and volunteer of the initiative group "Responsible Citizens of Donbass" Enrique Menendez.
If military actions are resumed, the terrorists will be defeated and thrown out of the Ukrainian territory unless Russia meddles in, declared the Donbass battalion commander and people’s deputy from the Samopomich party Semen Semenchenko.
In the opinion of the Ukrainian historian and professor at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Yaroslav Gritsak, the Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that he does not conquer Ukraine but saves it and that Ukrainians must be grateful to him.
Whatever the Russian President Vladimir Putin may say, the operation for annexation of the Crimea was being prepared for a long time, considers the ex-Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, former Prime Minister, Minister of Defence and Secretary of the Council of National Security and Defence Yevgeny Marchuk.
According to the Chairman of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar People Refat Chubarov, the film "Crimea. The Road to the Homeland" portrayed the leader of a large state who says that he solely makes inadequate decisions.
Probably, the film "Donbass. Return to Homeland" may be released in a year, considers the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vladimir Ogryzko.
The political scientist and head of the Centre of Applied Political Research "Penta" Vladimir Fesenko in the comment to the GORDON described the main reasons for the Russian president’s absence from public view, the image trap into which Vladimir Putin caught himself, and the struggle within the Russian leader’s environment.
The Russian financier Slava Rabinovich thinks that if the Russian President Vladimir Putin is in his right mind now, he thoroughly studies circumstances of Boris Nemtsov’s murder.
The Russian writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky thinks it senseless to discuss what has happened to the Russian President Vladimir Putin without concrete information.
"Boris Nemtsov was killed by the order from Vladimir Putin’s close associates, the Federal Security Service (FSB) was involved in the operation. The names of the people involved have been reported to the Russian President, so they will be removed without fuss soon," an FSB colonel reported in the interview to the GORDON .
The economic expert and President of the Centre for Economic Development Alexander Paskhaver considers that the IMF loan granted to Ukraine will help remove uncertainty and will slightly stabilize the economic situation.
Ex-Minister of Housing and Utilities (2007– 2010) Aleksey Kucherenko believes that the main goal of granting money by the IMF is stabilization of the foreign currency rate and a positive signal for other lenders.
Doctor of Economics and managing partner at the Capital Times investment company Eric Nayman believes that another round of hyperinflation would have awaited Ukraine if it had not received the IMF loan.
Mariupol is fortified relatively well, it cannot be seized with a frontal attack, considers the coordinator of the Informational Resistance group and people’s deputy Dmitry Tymchuk.
It is relatively calm in Lugansk region now, but this lull is temporary, reported the representative of the socio-political European movement "Free Caucasus" in Ukraine Amina Okueva.
The situation in Donbass can only be improved by replacing the Ukrainian military command and military apparatus, considers the former advisor to the Russian President Vladimir Putin and senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington Andrey Illarionov.
The government that has declared their support of cultural initiatives has not allocated a single cent for volunteers’ cultural actions, considers the former People’s Deputy Oles Doniy.
