Alexander Borovik
Arseniy Yatsenyuk forced Oleksandr Borovik, Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, to resign. Borovik himself stated this to Radio Liberty.
"Yes, it's true, and with this, I have no choice but to leave the government. Today, they blocked my email and told my team I won't be returning," Borovik said.
He also said that the Cabinet of Ministers' leadership did not share his views on economic policy:
"We still don't have an economic strategy. No one knows what kind of economy we're building or want to build. I'm a proponent of a liberal, open economy. I championed the idea of implementing unpopular reforms and drastically reducing government intervention in the economy and business—implementing large-scale privatization, deregulation, and leveling the playing field for all market participants. The Cabinet of Ministers told me I was moving too fast and that the Ukrainian economy and society weren't ready for this."
MPs from the Samopomich faction reportedly claimed that Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk forced Oleksandr Borovyk to resign from the ministry. According to the MPs, German lawyer Borovyk accepted Ukrainian citizenship and has been working at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine on a volunteer basis for two months, as Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has yet to sign off on Minister of Economic Development and Trade Abromavicius's appointment.
"I attended several Cabinet meetings where the approval was supposed to take place. I spent two or three hours standing outside the door, but the appointment never came," Borovik concluded.
By the end of May 14, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade issued an official comment:
"Mr. Borovik was fully aware of his status throughout his entire tenure with the Ministry. Alexander Borovik does not hold and has never held an official position within the Ministry," the ministry's press service emphasized.
The Ministry of Economy and Trade also added that, as the ministry continues its crucial work implementing, promoting, and monitoring reforms, it is crucial that all those who work for and advise the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine be able to work together constructively. Therefore, the ministry has decided to sever all ties with Mr. Borovik.
As a reminder, Oleksandr Borovyk was offered the position of Deputy Minister of Economics and Trade in March of this year, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko granted the former German resident Ukrainian citizenship. Prior to this, Borovyk served as General Counsel for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East (EMEA) in the London office of the American company Akamai Technologies.
Alexander Zubchenko described this situation very interestingly on his Facebook page :
The flight of "foreign tourists" from the Cabinet of Ministers
I don't know who Sasha Borovik is. However, judging by the wailing and cries emanating from patriotic social media, he's a colossal figure, comparable only to the late Steve Jobs and, perhaps, Zoryan Shkiryak. As it turns out, this guy supposedly worked for three months as the first deputy of a man known as "Anchovy," and arrived as a top manager at the Ministry of Economic Development from either Latvia or Lithuania. And then suddenly... He's no longer working, as he's had intellectual clashes with either "Anchovy" Abramavičius or Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
It must be a tragedy. The government is rapidly losing its best personnel. First, Nepalese hero Shkiryak Zoryanov fell victim to the insidious political intrigues and conspiracy of the global geopolitical backstage, which, damn it, piled nails on the Kathmandu airport runway. Now Sasha Borovik is leaving. Who is he? In March of this year, there was a powerful surge of patriotic enthusiasm associated with the arrival of a "sprot-eater" from Harvard Law School to the department. Anna Hopko from the "Self-Help-at-Home" faction solemnly congratulated Ukraine on this valuable personnel acquisition. Sasha had worked at Microsoft. Whether as a supply manager or a lawyer, I don't know. And so began the gripping story of Borovik's rise to the yawning failure of economic reform. Sasha, after all, had accepted citizenship in the heat of the moment, eager to inject fresh air into the management ideology. For three months, nothing was heard from him. Only today did it suddenly become clear that Sasha is an outright scoundrel who didn't fit into the unified team of reformers. Moreover, he was simply not confirmed for the position for three months. I wonder what he was doing there? He supposedly had no access to state secrets. No appointment order, no person. It's completely unclear how the Cabinet of Ministers' commandant's office issued him a pass. But, apparently, he got into the government building and ate at the cafeteria. Viktor Yushchenko's dream has come true; he was constantly trying to attract Harvard and Oxford graduates to government agencies. They did. He turned out to be a clearly defective candidate. His diploma is somewhat dubious, the offers are shady, and, apparently, he had no idea where he was or what he was doing. A user with the nickname "Slava Rabinovich" recounted Borovik's titanic work calculating the damage from Russian aggression. A whole 350 trillion dollars. Well, he’s clearly a crazy person, even though he uses such a serious economic tool as Facebook.
Instead of leaving quietly (especially since he wasn't appointed, as it turned out), and restoring his German passport with an Israeli residence permit, Sasha Borovik put on a spectacular show at the end, throwing high-tech crap at Yatsenyuk and "Anchovy."
Arseniy tried to deflect the topic, hinting that he'd never even laid eyes on this damn Harvard wunderkind. He'd been peacefully fixing Ukrnafta with Kolomoisky, and then suddenly—a social media brawl. After much deliberation, "Anchovy" was finally forced to acknowledge the existence of his first deputy, but pointedly distanced himself from him.
It turns out that a complete black sheep from Microsoft has infiltrated the vetted ranks of foreign specialists who arrived at the request of the guarantor of the nation to save Ukraine. Firstly, he's not Georgian, which in itself is a political crime against the Ukrainian nation. Secondly, he's not Lithuanian or even Estonian. And finally, his name is terrifying – Sasha Borovik. Not Alexander, at worst, but Sasha. Like, that's the German custom. Bitch! Bastard! There was a Maidan going on here. Or rather, jumping. Bayan was in full swing, and he showed up all dressed up in Microsoft and decided to intellectually troll "Anchovy." Abramičius only recently realized how mocking the name of the ministry he works for is: economic development. What development in the female genital area?!!
In short, the competent authorities should urgently deal with this Borovik, as he's clearly pandering to the separatists in general and Vladimir Vladimirovich in particular. He's cast a shadow over the excellent idea of attracting outstanding global minds to implement reforms. There are no complaints about Saakashvili. He's volunteering, purely out of love for the art, to steer Ukraine either in the wrong direction or on a European track. McCain dumped him by refusing to join the reform council, but that's no big deal. Ebanaidze has also found a home at the Ministry of Justice. At least, the secretaries no longer blush when introducing him to their bosses. There was a bit of a slip-up with Kvitashvili, though. The thing is, he's either a historian or a proctologist by training. In Georgia, they're practically the same thing. Well, just look at Vyatrovich: it's completely unclear where his primary historical traits are. But no matter. The problem is that, until recently, Kvitashvili thought he wasn't reforming the Ministry of Health, but rather legalizing soft drugs. He secluded himself in a mansion in Mariinsky Park (the Ministry of Health's headquarters) and spent a long time developing a plan for the circulation of light psychotropics and their derivatives. Everyone thought a new, European healthcare system would soon be established. The mistake was discovered purely by chance when the demonstration supply of cannabis ran out. And then it all began. The Rada registered a draft resolution dismissing the first Georgian from the post of Minister of Health in the history of Ukraine's independence. An unfortunate misstep, of course. And it's all Sasha Borovik's fault. He started putting on airs, demanding that Arseniy report on the expenditure of EU and IMF loans. Who are you? Go to Harvard and herd your geese there.
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