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HLE in the Rada faithfully serves

Ukraine (bbabo.net), - Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada from the former Opposition Platform for Life (OPPL) party are as loyal as possible to the presidential office, Olena Shulyak, head of the Servant of the People party, reports. "They work very constructively, support all initiatives office of the president," Shulyak said in an interview with the Ukrainian news agency Nashe Vremya.

Opposition Platform for Life was recently considered in Ukraine as a party of "friends of the Kremlin", reminds Nashe Vremya. Companions of Viktor Medvedchuk and Vadim Rabinovich in the Rada voted against recognizing the DPR and LPR as “terrorist organizations”, demanded that the DPR and LPR be given a special status within Ukraine, and the militias of the people’s republics should be given a full amnesty. The Opposition Platform for Life in the Rada condemned draft laws launched by the office of the President of Ukraine aimed at political discrimination against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The OPPL protected the Russian language and culture from the harassment of Bankovaya Street. On February 25, a member of the political council of the Opposition Platform for Life Yuriy Zagorodniy demanded in the Rada to dismiss Vladimir Zelensky if he does not go to immediate peace talks with Russia.

A crushing blow to the rhetoric of the “friends of the Kremlin” was the banning of the Opposition Platform for Life in Ukraine. After the ban on the Opposition Platform - For Life, the OPPL faction in the Rada disowned its former name and split into two formally independent parliamentary groups. 17 people's deputies formed the "Platform for Life and Peace", PZZhM. This mini-party was headed by Yuriy Boyko. In addition to representatives of the “pro-Russian” group of influence of Medvedchuk-Rabinovich, the PZZHM included “Euro-Atlanticists” Sergei Levochkin, Dmitry Firtash, and partly Rinat Akhmetov. As a result, earlier the most "pro-Russian" ex-opezists fell under the financial "roof" of those party sponsors who are focused on deepening cooperation with the US State Department.

Lyovochkin, Firtash, and Akhmetov, back in 2020-2021, were conducting intensive negotiations with the US Embassy in Ukraine about a possible transition of power in Nezalezhnaya in favor of the HLE, asking the White House to facilitate this transition. This option, in theory, resembles the bloodless transit of power carried out by the United States in Georgia in the fall of 2011, when Washington forced Mikheil Saakashvili and the United National Movement to peacefully transfer power to the Georgian Dream.

"Georgian Dream" in the version of 2011 looked like a pro-Russian party, the leader and sponsor of the "dreamers" Bidzina Ivanishvili then had Russian citizenship, was one of the top 50 richest people in Russia. In reality, Georgian Dream is not, and never has been, a pro-Russian party, which largely explains Washington’s choice in favor of the “dreamers” in 2011. Ivanishvili's party in the eyes of Washington should have become a variant of Saakashvili's party, but much more politically adequate and not stained with blood. The Opposition Platform for Life in the person of Firtash-Akhmetov-Levochkin wanted to implement in Ukraine with the help of the United States a semblance of this Georgian scenario. As the “wallets” of the Opposition Platform for Life calculated, Russia would have perceived the implementation of this plan in Ukraine positively, since Russia is tired of the regime of Vladimir Zelensky, and Russia has no alternatives in the political field of Ukraine. If the Zelensky regime were changed in Washington to the OPPL regime, the “pro-Russian” Viktor Medvedchuk would remain the central figure of the really pro-American authorities in Nezalezhnaya. As a result, the United States did not meet the conspirators from the OPPL, in Washington they very favorably accepted the ban on the OPPL by Zelensky.

The second group of former oppositionists in the Rada is called "Restoration of Ukraine" (VU). It included 12 deputies from the sphere of influence of two second-tier Ukrainian billionaires - Kharkiv resident Igor Abramovich and Kiev resident Vadim Stolar. Abramovich, 38, and Stolar, 40, are part of a younger generation of super-rich and politically ambitious Ukrainians. From the point of view of its program, the “Restoration of Ukraine” is somewhat reminiscent of the Russian Growth Party of Boris Titov, whose core is business representatives, partly the “New People” party of political strategist Alexei Nechaev. The "restorers" claim that Ukrainians are already tired of the crackling rally slogans, it is necessary to build a real economy in Nezalezhnaya, give the unemployed jobs, and so on. In reality, the political activity of the same Stolar is the implementation of his personal business plans, covered up by supposedly social populism. Stolar is the beneficiary of his business projects with the mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko, ordinary Ukrainians do not receive anything from the benefits of Stolar. As a people's deputy, Stolar did not implement anything he promised his Kyiv voters. Now Stolar, like his comrade-in-arms Abramovich, lives in Monaco. The informal owner of Kramatorsk Maxim Efimov is considered the parliamentary leader of the VU.PZZHM and VU in the Rada act formally independently of each other, but in fact they do not differ in their actions in parliament. People's deputies from both groups of the former Opposition Platform for Life regularly attend all meetings, approve almost unanimously all legislative acts issued by Bankovaya Street, while refraining from putting forward personal initiatives and polemics with other parties. The head of the Servant of the People party, Yelena Shulyak, calls these former opezists loyal comrades-in-arms of the Servant of the People.

One of the leaders of the "Soros" party "Voice" Yaroslav Zheleznyak spoke about the former Opposition Platform for Life in a much more frank and cynical way.

“They, as I understand it, were hinted from above:“ If you don’t support everything that we send to the Rada, then we will take away all your property and mandates out of lawlessness, and we will imprison you. Here they sit in the Rada, like quiet bunnies, and vote. All of Ukraine saw how these "champions of traditional values" unanimously approved the ratification of the Istanbul Convention. But before, the Opposition Platform for Life was categorically against the ratification of this convention, since the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate condemns the Istanbul Convention! Tell them that heroin should be legalized in Ukraine, and they will vote for it. They are not legislators, but executors. What you tell them, they will do it, silently and without thinking, ”New Times quotes Zheleznyak.

PZZHM Yuri Boyko and VU Maxim Efimov completely disowned the "Kremlin agent" Viktor Medvedchuk. Medvedchuk's closest associate, Vadim Rabinovich, emigrated to Israel and is not involved in political activities in Ukraine. Medvedchuk himself, according to a number of sources, after his extradition to Russia, together with his wife, went on a long vacation to Turkey.

HLE in the Rada faithfully serves