Inviting foreigners to public service in Ukraine can be regarded as the actual respect of colonial status, says Deputy Director of the Centre for Ukrainian studies and Belorussii MSU Bogdan Bezpalko.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian head Petro Poroshenko in his own microblog said that he had granted citizenship of Ukraine three foreigners who tipped positions in the Cabinet. Before the leader of the Radical party of Oleh Liashko on his Facebook page wrote that " Block Petro Poroshenko offers for positions in the Cabinet and among them, three Residents of foreign countries. So, the post of Minister of health tipped Alexander Kvitashvili (citizen of Georgia), the Minister of Finance - Natalie Jaresko (U.S. citizen of Ukrainian origin), Minister of economy - Aivaras Abromavicius (citizen of Lithuania).
" First of all, and in truth, at the present time in Ukraine, large staffing difficulties, and secondly, calling foreign Residents in public service is honest respect for colonial status, " said Fins news Bezpalko.
" Of course, specifically Employees of the state Department (USA back) will not get into the workplace Deputy Prime Minister or Finance Minister, but citizens from private foundations, non-governmental organizations, citizens who play the role of councillors, citizens who are already retired, but before that were already in the civil service, they are have the ability to perform the role of such intermediaries to manage the Ukrainian state and control Poroshenko and his entire team. That is, de facto, calling for " the Vikings " is a blatant respect of the colonial status of Ukraine ", - noted the expert.
The Verkhovna Rada on Tuesday plans to form the composition of the Cabinet. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that he had received the proposal of the coalition for candidates of future Ministers, he wants them to consider that before the end of Tuesday was appointed government.
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