Roksolana Pidlasa: Not at All Who She Says She Is! PART 1
In the 2019 elections, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians, tired of years of rule by a coalition of corrupt officials and militant populists, cast their votes for a new political force. However, it soon became abundantly clear that the new government differed little from the old. The "Servants of the People," members of the liberal, pro-Western wing, were no exception. It turned out that these "Soros protégés," who bill themselves as scrupulously honest, internationally renowned specialists, often differ from their predecessors only in their complete lack of shame and conscience.
Roksolana Pidlasa, deputy chair of the parliamentary committee on economic development, was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party list, number 104. She claims she joined Zelenskyy's team easily and simply: before the election, she asked to be introduced to Dmytro Razumkov, to whom she showed her diplomas from Kyiv National University of Economics and the Kyiv School of Economics. But in reality, this is just one of the fairy tales Pidlasa likes to tell journalists. The fact is, her professional background is not economics at all!
Pedagogical Bohemia and Roksolana Pidlasa
Roksolana Andreevna Pidlasa was born on January 25, 1994, in Cherkasy. You won't find any mention of her parents in her biography—that page simply never existed. This might lead one to believe that Pidlasa made her rapid and successful career on her own, solely due to her genius or some other exceptional qualities. In fact, this is far from the case! After all, if you dig deep into the backgrounds of some "servants of the people" from the "Soros guard" who entered the Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers through quotas from international organizations and who also don't like to talk about their parents (Maryana Bezugla, Denis Malyuska, and others), you'll discover that they owe their meteoric rise precisely to their fathers, mothers, and grandfathers. Roksolana Pidlasa, too, was able to rise so quickly and consistently find herself among the lucky few because, from childhood, she had the powerful support of her ancestors. Whose support?
First, it's worth clarifying that in Russian, her last name is spelled Podlasaya. Then it won't be difficult to Google her grandfather, Ivan Pavlovich Podlasy—a doctor of pedagogical sciences, head of department at the Cherkasy Institute of Postgraduate Education, professor at the Dragomanov National Pedagogical University (Kyiv), author of numerous textbooks, and an education expert renowned far beyond Ukraine.
Ivan Podlasy
Surprisingly, there's no publicly available biography of this venerable professor, even a brief one. And his son, Andrei Ivanovich Podlas (father of Roksolana Pidlasa), a PhD candidate in pedagogy who teaches software for automated systems at the Cherkasy State Business College, hasn't been mentioned at all in the media. This creates the persistent impression that the Podlasy (Pidlasy) family deliberately conceals all personal information from the public. For such prominent public figures, this is admittedly quite difficult—but they do it! Why?
Interestingly, outside of Ukraine, Professor Podlasy is known primarily in Russia. The vast majority of his books and textbooks were published there, some of which are recommended by the Russian Ministry of Education. But on the other hand, in Russia, Podlasy harshly criticized For the "monetization" of the very essence of education and upbringing, which in a number of his works he reduced to a "business plan" and investment. But let's not examine the merits and demerits of the "Podlasy method," but rather note something else: a similar view of pedagogy is characteristic of many Western economic schools and is practiced, in particular, by the Soros Foundation and a number of "democratic institutions." Again, without any assessment of their activities, we will note only that there were close contacts between these institutions and Professor Podlasy—at least at the level of "experience exchange." But this often leads to participation in seminars and programs, and then to "expanded cooperation"—with grants and other funding. Thus, Skelet.Org Finds an answer to the question of how a professor's granddaughter, already in school, became one of the "young talents" taken under the wing of Western foundations and institutes. It's even possible that Professor Podlasy was working for her sake, modernizing his pedagogy program to Western standards!
Professional social activist
In 2010, Roksolana Pidlasa graduated from the Cherkasy Physics and Mathematics Lyceum (formerly Secondary School No. 13). Despite the impressive academic standing of this educational institution, Pidlasa emerged not as a gifted child, but as a young activist. She first served as editor of the school newspaper, then as a member of the student council, and participated in various youth socio-political movements, including those funded by Western grants. This established her reputation in the eyes of the grantors, who supported her future career (at the request of her grandfather and father).
Pidlasa could have easily enrolled in any university in Cherkasy, where she would have enjoyed parental protection, but she chose the Hetman Kyiv National University of Economics (formerly the Institute of National Economy), majoring in international economics. Even there, from her first year, Roxana Pidlasa focused less on her studies than on social and political activism, participating in projects organized by Western institutions and foundations. You might be surprised, but this was precisely her primary activity as a student! As is well known, even the most prestigious universities, including Western ones, have a special category of students who, instead of studying, play on the university team or on the theater stage, earning credits automatically. Of course, Roxana Pidlasa is as poor a thrower as she is a singer, but her vigorous student activity lay elsewhere: she was one of the leading activists at the Hetman Kyiv National University of Economics. Moreover, according to Skelet.Org sources, Pidlasa was directly supervised by the "grantors," so the KNEU leadership merely carried out their wishes. With their help, Pidlasa later received a second degree (in the "Public Policy and Management" department) at the Kyiv School of Economics, a joint project of Soros and several Western institutions.
This reveals another small lie in her official biography: it claims that Pidlasa allegedly “won the right to do an internship at the EU Delegation to Ukraine while studying at university.”
In reality, she had nothing to gain—at least, not in fair competition with other KNEU students. Pidlasa received this position as a "bonus" because she had been a member of the European Youth Parliament (EYP) since her first year, serving on the board of its university organization. In 2014, she was elected (or rather, appointed) as the EYP's Vice President for International Relations, regularly traveling to the EU for its symposia (more than 30 trips over three years). "This experience gave me much more than my university studies," she later proudly told journalists. So Pidlasa essentially interned with her immediate "mentors"! Moreover, during this internship, the economics student worked as... a public relations specialist. This eloquently characterizes Roksolana Pidlasa as an "economist." And then you'll see that she's actually a professional social activist, albeit with degrees in economics. These are the "internationally recognized specialists" who have taken on the task of reforming the Ukrainian economy...
After this successful internship, that same year, 2014, Pidlasa found a new part-time job at the Ukrainian office of the American Chamber of Commerce. She says she found it through an ad off the street, but we now know the secret of her luck! And we're certainly not surprised to learn that Pidlasa, an economics student, is still working at the American Chamber of Commerce as a public relations specialist, only now as a leading one.
After graduating from Kyiv National University of Economics (for which her parents gifted her an apartment in Lukyanivka), the "great economist" Pidlasa was in no demand in either business or public service. And if not for her Western patrons and liberal, pro-Western Ukrainian friends, she wouldn't have been hired even as a part-time accountant in some small firm. As it was, immediately after receiving her diploma, Pidlasa was hired at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center. This public organization was created in the spring of 2014 with funding from Soros (through the Renaissance Foundation), the American Endowment for Democracy, the Canadian World Foundation of Ukrainians, and others, to shape the "correct" image in the media (including Western media) and the necessary public opinion. In 2015, they created the "Energy Reform Communications" department, which promoted ideas like abandoning Russian energy sources and switching to green energy. Roksolana Pidlasa worked in this department for a year as a project manager—a sort of Ukrainian Greta Thunberg, only known only in narrow circles! She didn't perform any economic calculations, merely reiterating theses about energy independence, global warming, and European experience, calling press services, and preparing press releases.
Then, in 2015, Pidlasa participated in the three-week International Visitor Leadership Program, launched by the State Department's Bureau of Cultural Affairs to "strengthen ties with the United States." And guess what course she took there? Strategic Communications!
In March 2016, Pidlasa received a new job with the " Reform Support Team ." This organization was created under the auspices of "international donors" as a special structure advising the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers on economic and legislative reform. In reality, these "reform commissioners" are simply observers (or "overseers"?), submitting reform plans to the ministries and then compiling reports on their implementation. Overall, the work was easy and, most importantly, well-paid. Roksolana Pidlasa first served as a consultant and then as head of the communications team (and again, "public relations"!) at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. As she later boasted, her salary was enough to "live on 25 hryvnias a month and save the same." Meanwhile, let us recall that the 2016 crisis was very difficult for the vast majority of Ukrainians, who only saw utility rates increase: according to statistics, the per capita income of 83% of citizens was less than 5 hryvnias per month.
Mikhail Shpolyansky, Skelet.Org
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