Andriy Portnov recalled that, as Minister of Economic Development and Trade during Viktor Yanukovych's presidency, Poroshenko was a frequent guest at the former president's birthday parties.
“And in 2012, Petro Poroshenko gave Viktor Yanukovych an ordinary gift.
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky's 1851 painting "Constantinople at Dawn," purchased by Pyotr Alekseevich through the Art Capital gallery at the following address: Kyiv, Borichev Tok, 30.
“In 2007, the price of this painting at Sotheby's was 1,8 million US dollars,” writes Portnov.
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The former adviser also claims that Poroshenko's ambitions were quite high at the time, which explains his "warm attitude" toward Yanukovych:
“The Ukrainian political elite knows that at that time Petro Oleksiyovych was a minister, but he wanted to become either the mayor of Kyiv or some other even more important official.
"Therefore, by bowing and scraping through the reception areas of officials close to the former President, the candidate demonstrated both a mastery of bureaucratic ingratiation and invaluable experience in walking on bent legs," Andrei Portnov is confident.
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