To reduce social standards just to get into a new debt - is absurd, says the economist, the president of the Ukrainian Analytical Center Aleksander Okhrimenko.
Debt problem should be solved not by providing new loans to Ukraine, but by restructuring the external debt, political scientist, the head of the Center for Applied Political Studies "Penta" Volodymyr Fesenko.
"Fifth Column" in the Donbass dreams about the arrival of Putin and sabotages the official decision of Kiev, said MP from the "Narodnyy Front" Sergey Vysotsky.
Executive Director of the Institute of Mass Information, a representative of the international organization "Reporters Without Borders' in Ukraine Oksana Romaniuk considers that People's Deputy of the "Narodnyy Front" Konstantin Mateychenko’s bill on criminal liability for criticizing the government" is just awful.
The People’s Deputy from the Batkivshchyna faction Igor Lutsenko considers that the dismissal of the Head of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeriya Gontareva was about to take place long ago though it will not solve all problems in the Ukrainian economy.
The People’s Deputy from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc Viktor Chumak considers that there were objective reasons for the drop in the hryvnia rate, but it will probably return to UAH 20-22 / $1.
The Ukrainian economist and Chairman of the Association of Ukrainian Banks Alexander Sugonyako thinks that the Ukrainian government must in the first place think of creating new jobs in order to overcome the crisis.
The Chairman of the Radical Party faction Oleg Lyashko considers that the management of the National Bank not only weakens the rate of the national currency but also destroys the Ukrainian economy by their actions.
The Russian blogger and activist Pavel Shekhtman fled from house arrest to Ukraine where he sought political asylum. The GORDON met the forced emigrant in Kiev and inquired him about the details of his flight, about Internet-'titushky' and 'voluntary assistants' of the Federal Security Service that are numerous in Russia.
Europeans fear to provide military assistance to the Ukrainian army because they are afraid of Putin, considers the writer and journalist Andrey Kurkov. In his opinion, the war may linger on for years and exhaust Ukraine. The man of letters said in the interview to the GORDON about what ordeals await for Ukrainians, why all social benefits must be cancelled, when the shooting in Donbass will stop, and what role culture may play in it.
The author of "The FSB Blowing up Russia" and "The Corporation. Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin", Russian-American historian Yuri Felshtinsky believes that Russia has only military leverage in relation to Ukraine that is not enough to seize the country. He sent his new article on the mechanisms of influence on Russia and on President Vladimir Putin’s mistakes to the GORDON .
The Ukrainian pilot and people’s deputy Nadezhda Savchenko’s sister Vera believes that the Russian authorities must see the public reaction to the situation with the woman pilot and urged the Russians not to be afraid of going to mass actions.
Only a strong Ukrainian army and consolidation of the Ukrainian society will help win the war with Russia, the political scientist Vladimir Fesenko reported.
The Ukrainian government is rushing between reckless undertakings trying to keep the fighting spirit among the population, believes the Russian military expert Alexander Golts.
Ukraine has to use all engineering equipment to create a defensive zone along the whole contact line in order to form a local Mannerheim line, reported the Head of the Informational Resistance group and People’s Deputy from the People’s Front Dmitry Tymchuk.
The UAE may sell us arms of previous generations that remained after army modernization, believes the military expert and director of military programs at the Razumkov Centre Nikolay Sungurovsky.
The Head of the National Bank Valeriya Gontareva should understand that the hryvnia rate depends on her words, considers the People’s Deputy from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc Sergey Kaplin
Panic is one of the major factors of the decrease in the value of the country’s currency, stated the prominent economic expert and President of the Centre for Economic Development Alexander Paskhaver.
The economic situation must be improved by the Ukrainians themselves together with international financial organizations, considers the Russian financier Slava Rabinovich.
