Dnipropetrovsk clan
The Dnipropetrovsk clan ( Ukrainian клан Дніпропетровський , Russian Днепропетровский клан ) is a political-economic political patronage network of oligarchs and top officials of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro (2016 Dnipropetrovsk ).
term
In the post-Soviet space, “Klan” has the meaning of an informal network in politics and business and does not indicate any kind of kinship relationship, one supports each other , but there are always disputes and occasional hostilities between the individual groups.
history
The name “Klan” goes back to the party leader of the CPSU , head of state of the Soviet Union and four-time hero of the Soviet Union Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev . He had given his favorite Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitzky important posts in the Soviet Union, among other things, he was second, then first observer secretary of the CPSU in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast , candidate of the Politburo and later a full member of the Politburo and Prime Minister from 1961 to 1963 and from 1965 to 1972 the Ukrainian SSR . It also comes from Leonid Kuchma , who was Prime Minister of Ukraine from October 1992 to September 1993 and President of Ukraine from July 1994 to January 2005 and former General Director of Yushmash . His election campaigns were mainly financed by wealthy business circles, for whom he then campaigned heavily. Another key figure is Pavlo Lasarenko , Prime Minister of Ukraine from May 1996 to July 1997.
Reactions from abroad
A US delegation headed by Richard L. Morningstar, the Clinton Cabinet's special envoy for economic aid in the former Soviet Union, spoke to senior officials in Kiev in 1996 about US concerns about rising corruption and the strengthening of the Dnepropetrovsk clan, calling this a threat to the process of transforming Ukraine into a market economy .
Sherman W. Garnett, deputy assistant to the Ministry of Defense ( English Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense ) in the Presidency of Bill Clinton described it in his 1997 book Keystone in the Arch: Ukraine and the emerging security environment of Central and Eastern Europe the influence of the Dnipropetrovsk clan as "bloodsucking ".
structure
The Dnipropetrovsk clan consists of the five groups Privat, Pinchuk, Derkach, Kuchma and Tymoshenko.
Private group
The Privat Group consists of the former governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and oligarch Ihor Kolomoysky and co-founder Hennadij Boholjubow , who own PrivatBank , the largest non-public bank in Ukraine. The group has significant investments in the oil, gas, steel and media industries. Serhiy Tihipko was Chairman of the Board of Management of PrivatBank and became an advisor to Kuchma on currency issues, later Minister of Economy and President of the National Bank of Ukraine . He kept in close contact with PrivatBank and was supported by it.
Pinchuk group
The head of the Pinchuk Group is entrepreneur, oligarch, patron and former member of parliament Viktor Pinchuk , who is married to the daughter of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and who, among others, owns the Interpipe Group, the media company StarLightMedia with the TV channels STB , ICTV, Neuer Kanal, M1, M2 and QTV (about 30% of TV viewers) and the tabloid Fakty i commentarii (about 1.1 million readers daily) belong.
Derkatsch group
The Derkatsch group consists of Leonid Derkatsch , former head of the Ukrainian domestic intelligence service Sluschba bespeky Ukrajiny and general of the Ukrainian armed forces and his son Andrij Derkatsch , long-time member of parliament and head of the media holding Era Media ( Russian Эра Медиа ).
Kuchma group
The Kuchma group around the former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and many politicians who came to power through him are mainly formed around the state armaments industry group Yushmasch , mainly represents the interests of the armaments industry and has good contacts with the Russian armaments industry, but competes with it in the World market.
Tymoshenko group
The Tymoshenko Group of Yulia Tymoshenko is formed around the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (VEU) ( Russian. Единые энергетические системы Украины (ЕЭСУ) ), which were heavily promoted by Pavlo Lasarenko to become the largest importer and sales company introduced by Pavlo Lasarenko Ukraine rose. The VEU, headed by Julija Tymoshenko, reciprocated by paying bribes in the millions. Pavlo Lasarenko fled to Switzerland in 1998 and was sentenced in the USA in 2004. The holding company controlled 10 percent from 1995 to 1997 the Ukrainian steel industry and 25 percent of the pipeline and pipe production, influence had about 35 Ukrainian media and good contacts with Gazprom and Itera . After the Orange Revolution, Tymoshenko was Prime Minister of Ukraine from January to September 2005 and from December 2007 to March 2010 , founded her own party alliance with Blok Juliji Tymoshenko and the All-Ukrainian Association “Fatherland” with Oleksandr Turchynov .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Eberhard Schneider : Ukraine - split between East and West. In: Federal Center for Political Education . February 20, 2007, accessed September 15, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c Jane Perlez: Ukraine on the way to capitalism, blocking clans. In: The New York Times . New York Times Company, October 18, 1996, accessed September 20, 2014 (Original title: On Ukraine's Capitalist Path, Clique Mans Roadblocks).