Reply To: Russian Tensions
PGB asserts_ “Nor is there any credible evidence that they are acting at the behest of capitalists or in the broad interests of capital.”
Once again I refer to my earlier post that drew attention to the trigger for the Maidan protests and overthrow of Yanukovych. His decision against the Parliamentary majority not to sign the political association and free trade agreement with the EU.
Ukraine’s oligarchs were divided. Those with closer Russian connections seeking the Euroasian Economic Union mainly in the industrialised Donbas and the more agricultural western Ukraine that saw their market being with the EU. For example, Rinat Akhmetov initially supported the Donbas separatists as he owned the steelworks in Mariupol.