{"id":145180,"date":"2015-03-28T00:39:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T00:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=145180"},"modified":"2015-03-28T01:31:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T01:31:31","slug":"report-ukrainian-oligarch-kolomoysky-robbed-rampantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/report-ukrainian-oligarch-kolomoysky-robbed-rampantly\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Ukrainian Oligarch Kolomoysky Robbed Rampantly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

The Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung<\/i>\u00a0reported Thursday the 26th<\/span><\/a>, that the Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, whom Ukraine\u2019s President Petro Poroshenko recently removed from control over Ukraine\u2019s monopoly oil-transport firm and from being governor of a Ukrainian province, had been using his private army, augmented by forces from Dmitriy Yarosh\u2019s Right Sector party, to rob other oligarchs, especially Ukraine\u2019s richest one, Rinat Akhmetov.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Akhmetov’s companies are mainly in eastern Ukraine, and so Akhmetov had been trying to avoid siding with either the post-coup<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Ukrainian government or the anti-coup residents of the far-eastern, and pro-Russian, Donbass region of Ukraine, who reject it. (That\u2019s the dark-purple area shown on\u00a0this voting map of the last Presidential election before the coup,<\/span><\/a> where 90%+ of the residents had voted for Viktor Yanukovych \u2013 the man who was overthrown in the coup.) Akhmetov was thus vulnerable after the coup<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This news report, by FAZ<\/i>\u2019s Warsaw correspondent Konrad Schuller, says that Kolomoysky\u2019s thugs had been using\u00a0“psychological pressure,\u201d \u201cintimidation,” “physical force,\u201d and \u201ckidnappings,\u201d in order to “extend their influence.\u201d They were “going to build in eastern Ukraine’s combat zone a network\u00a0of extortion and violence that would subject everyone there to kidnapping and\u00a0robbery by Kolomojskij with the help of some of his leading battalion\u00a0commanders.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This article reports that, \u201cIn the center of it all there stood a man named K., a prominent and close associate of Kolomojskijs.\u201d Earlier, the article says, “Kolomojskijs deputy as governor, Hennadij Korban, was\u00a0preparing to organize demonstrations in his stronghold\u00a0Dnipropetrovsk,\u201d which is the region to which, after the coup, Kolomoysky had been appointed governor by Oleksandr Turchynov, who had been appointed by Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who had been appointed by Geoffrey Pyatt, at the instruction of Victoria Nuland<\/span><\/a>, who had been appointed by Barack Obama.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kolomoysky, furthermore, himself\u00a0appointed Joe Biden\u2019s son Hunter Biden to the board of Kolomoysky\u2019s own gas-exploration company.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, apparently, Kolomoysky, who had long been known for taking over companies by raiding them with his private army, has now become too much for Obama to take, and so Ukraine\u2019s President Petro Poroshenko recently removed Kolomoysky from his posts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in June, Kolomoysky said publicly that he would not take instruction from President Poroshenko. But now that Obama has turned against Kolomoysky, Kolomoysky no longer has any effective political power-base in Ukraine, despite his billions and his private army and his backing from Yarosh<\/span><\/a>\u2019s Right Sector, which includes an even larger private army, very nazi. (In Ukraine, the nazis, or racist fascists, are haters of Russians, not necessarily also of Jews; Kolomoysky himself is Ukraine\u2019s leading Jew \u2013 and he\u2019s also a leading Ukrainian nazi.) Yarosh\u2019s Right Sector troops, as well as Kolomoysky\u2019s own mercenaries, have been the most effective of all of Ukraine\u2019s forces at\u00a0killing the residents of the rebelling region, Donbass.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

FAZ<\/i>‘s reporter Schuller says that the Security Bureau of Ukraine (SBU) had found that Kolomoysky was planning to become Ukraine\u2019s \u201cfinal number one among the oligarchs of the country,\u201d by stealing from Akhmetov and others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apparently, Obama has decided to let Poroshenko take over. The nazis,\u00a0whose guns and muscle overthrew the previous president, Viktor Yanukovych<\/span><\/a>, now know that Obama will no longer be beholden to them \u2013 he has had enough of them, and he expects everyone to line up now behind President Poroshenko.<\/span><\/p>\n

There has been a contest in Ukraine as to whether\u00a0the ethnic cleansing of Donbass, to get rid of its residents<\/span><\/a>, would be taken over by the nazi forces or would remain under Poroshenko\u2019s command. Evidently, it will remain under Poroshenko\u2019s command.<\/span><\/p>\n

On March 24th, U.S. Abrams tanks were photographed in Linz Austria on rail cars heading toward Ukraine.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0If that\u2019s where they are going, then the Ukrainian government might have better weapons this time than they did in either of their previous two invasions of Donbass.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. President Obama accuses Russia of arming the residents in Donbass. In his\u00a0National Security Strategy 2015<\/i><\/span><\/a>, he uses the word \u201caggression\u201d 18 times, 17 of them referring to Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

———-<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0of\u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse The Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung\u00a0reported Thursday the 26th, that the Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, whom Ukraine\u2019s President Petro Poroshenko recently removed from control over Ukraine\u2019s monopoly oil-transport firm and from being governor of a Ukrainian province, had been using his private army, augmented by forces from Dmitriy Yarosh\u2019s Right Sector party, to rob other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":145181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,59,524,523,49,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-145180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-usa-news","18":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}