The director of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics told why Ukrainian politicians call loans “help”.
According to Ruslan Bortnik, current politicians are well aware that they will not have to give the received loans.
“Loans help to keep the current ineffective and corrupt model of governance – power. For them, it really is a help”, – Bortnik writes in his blog on Facebook.
“And debts are to be given back by us, dear friends! Loans no longer play an amortizing role in our system – a safety net in a situational crisis. For 6 years of “urgent therapy”, they “mutated” not only into an instrument of maintaining power, but also external dependence, social experiments on Ukrainians, resource exploitation. The therapy has become worse than the disease, although it was originally needed”.