President-oligarch with pro-Russian shade

At first in Ukrainian history official billionaire was elected President of Ukraine in 2014 and it was Petro Poroshenko, oligarch who has business in different countries, including Russia, where Poroshenko’s corporation “Roshen” owns factory in Lipetsk. P. Poroshenko had bought Lipetsk chocolate factory in 2001, but considering present difficult situation in Donbas, he would sell his business in Russian Federation to avoid Russian state power’s pressure on him. In general president Poroshenko likes to surround himself with billionaires and millionaires, for example, he doesn’t want to release from the posts Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration oligarch-billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskyy, Head of Donetsk Regional State Administration  oligarch-billionaire Serhiy Taruta, Head of Odesa Regional State Administration millionaire Ihor Palytsya and Minister of Interior Affairs billionaire Arsen Avakov. Besides it president-businessman Poroshenko appointed banker-millionaire Valeriya Hontaryeva on the post of Head of National Bank of Ukraine, media magnate-billionaire Borys Lozhkin on the post of Head of Administration of the President and agrarian magnate-billionaire Yuriy Kosyuk on the post of the First Deputy of Head of Administration of the President. And Russian language is that thing which unites all these persons, including present President of Ukraine, because all of them are Russian-speaking people and Russian is their mother tongue. Even more, Head of Administration of the President Borys Lozhkin, Russian philologist by education, he received the award “Best media-manager of Russia” in 2008, and in July of 2013 Speaker of Council of Russian Federation Valentina Matviyenko rewarded him with honorary diploma of Council of Russian Federation for the development of Russian media in Ukraine and Russia and for the strengthening of the friendship between Russia and Ukraine. Then Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin, appointed on that post by President Petro Poroshenko, agrees with the idea of declaration of Russian language as the second official language in Ukraine. And indeed it’s a very strange how P. Klimkim, who was born in Moscow and graduated from Moscow Physical-Polytechnical Institute, could get a job in Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993. Moreover Klimkin held a post of the First Deputy of Minister of Foreign Affairs since April of 2010 till June of 2012, that is a time of presidency of Viktor Yanukovych. Though both Ukraine’s presidents, former Yanukovych and present Poroshenko, were members of the Party of the Regions, and the more so that Poroshenko was one of co-founders of this political party. Maybe that’s why Petro Poroshenko appointed Serhiy Kuzmenko, people’s deputy and ex-member of the Party of the Regions (was its member until February 22^nd, 2014) on the post of Head of Kirovohrad Regional State Administration on September 16^th, 2014?

Another thing which connects V. Yanukovych and P. Poroshenko is their support of Russian Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate. Maybe that’s why Head of Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kiril was one of the first who publicly congratulated Poroshenko with a victory on the presidential elections-2014 yet before the announcement of the official results of these elections of Ukrainian president? And, of course, it wasn’t some casual meeting that Petro Poroshenko was one of the invited guests on the solemn litany from the occasion of 1025^th anniversary of baptism of Kyiv Rus by the prince Volodymyr Velykyy, which was celebrated on July 27^th, 2013 in Kyiv and where were invited and attend Ukraine’s state power of that time with president Viktor Yanukovych, many politicians from the Party of the Regions, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Head of Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kiril and other world’s Russian-oriented ecclesiastics and politicians.