Antonyna Shestovska
Sales consultant
“The country is like a house. It needs a good landlord to keep the order. If our leaders cooperate and start actually working, I believe they can improve situation in a year. However, judging from the broader perspective, no good will come from any of our politicians. They live by old rules and today’s Ukraine has already developed new ones.”
Oleksandr Ivanov
Student
“To get out of this deep crisis, Ukraine needs a second Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a person who would aggressively go after reforms and immediately react to the rapidly changing environment. Only through mass protest can Ukraine can make today’s government actually do something. It’ll take at least three or four years for Ukraine to get out of this crisis, and only if we get a prominent leader.”
Oleksandr Borzinsky
Engineer
“Everyone in the Ukrainian government tries to take all the bed covers. The covers may fall apart, however. Only through compromise and electing a new president will Ukraine make it through the crisis, which will, in the best-case scenario, last for the next five years.”
Oleksandra Forshtein
Pensioner
“The only way is a change of government to a more democratic one. I believe that a new political generation will actually dedicate themselves to business, not to ambitions and personal interests. The severe recession will last for at least the next two years.”
Ihor Bazilevsky
Police officer “Ukraine will never get out of crisis when such brainless people are in power and always will be.”
