Vox Populi with Victoria Petrenko: What is the importance of the resignation of Igor Kolomoisky as governor?

By Victoria Petrenko.

Published March 27, 2015 at 12:16 am

Photo by Pavlo Podufalov

Valeriy Kapelyushny

historian

“Everything being done today is right. Our Security Service (of Ukraine) works well. Kolomoisky visited (President Petro) Poroshenko, perhaps they found some compromise. In Dnipropetrovsk there are enough forces, as in Odesa and Kharkiv, and if even somebody will try to do something there, it is not a problem anymore. We have start to make order in the country. Kolomoisky did a lot of good things for Dnipropetrovsk, it is true, but it is also true that he, or maybe his command, worked sometimes not correctly.”

Mozharovsky

Anatoly Mozharovsky

poet

“Over 23 years the country was looted. The relations between Poroshenko and Kolomoisky influence nothing. What is really matters is that the system remained to be bandits and thieves, where everything is done for money. All these games with resignations, assignments, arrests, fights with corruption, are designed for silly people.”

Oleksandr Kirilkov

student

“His resignation was the right step. It should not be so, that he captures UkrNafta (a state-owned oil company). And he can’t talk in such a way with journalists. He should remember that he held a high position and could not allow himself such things.”

Marochko

Tetyana Marochko

teacher

“If the person is at his right place, it does not matter who he is, an oligarch or a simple official. If he brings benefit to the state, let him work.”

Rynkov

Valentin Rynkov

office administrator

“Young progressive politicians should be responsible for reforms, not the oligarchs who act in their own interests not in the interests of people”.