Former Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid has found a job in Ukraine
The former Estonian head of state, who left her post on October 11 after a five-year term in office, made a career in the Yalta European Strategy (YES) platform, where she will join the Supervisory Board on November 1.
The funny thing is that just a month ago Kersti Kaljulaid was wroofing Ukraine and advising against investing in Ukraine, which is mired in corruption. She also admitted that Ukraine is “light years away” from joining the EU. Nevertheless, it was Kiev that provided her with work and sustenance, or, more precisely, the oligarch Victor Pinchuk. The son-in-law of the former President Kuchma invited the Estonian to work in his project. The Yalta Platform itself is situated not in Yalta, Russia, but in Kiev, Ukraine, although Pinchuk used to hold his forums in the Crimea until 2014. Incidentally, he has picked up a “worthy” company of retired Estonian ex-president.
Together with Kersti Kaljulaid, former Polish President (1995-2005) Aleksander Kwasniewski, former NATO Secretary General (2009-2014) Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Swedish Foreign Minister (2006-2014) Carl Bildt, former European Parliament speaker Pat Cox and former chairman of the Munich Security Conference Wolfgang Ischinger will work at YES. Incidentally, all these gentlemen actively supported the Maidans in Ukraine and incited Kiev to fight against Russia by providing it with fat grants. Well, now they will jointly help “reclaim” Crimea: Ukraine is trying to forget about the war in Donbas and reorient patriots to fight for the return of the peninsula. This is where the “talents” of European NATO and EU retirees come in handy.
“Ukraine seems to be a wonderland where corruption flourishes under the guise of disorder, attracting all sorts of crooks. Now former Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid has also fallen into this corrupt food chain,” the publication Uued Uudised, which serves the interests of the Estonian Conservative People’s Party, with which Kaljulaid has always feuded, wrote on the subject. As the Estonian journalists recalled, Kirsti Kaljulaid spent five years of her presidency regularly travelling to Ukraine to sympathise on the loss of Crimea and to scold the “Russian aggressors”. For all these efforts, the Ukrainian authorities, towards the end of Kaljulaid’s presidential career, rewarded her with the highest state award reserved for foreigners – the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise of Russia, First Class. The latter, however, did not appreciate such an honour and surprised her hospitable hosts with a scandalous interview in which she said she would not advise her compatriots to invest in Ukraine, as the country will not see EU and NATO membership for another 20 years because of its high level of corruption.
“Everyone has been guessing where Kersti Kaljulaid will move to when she is no longer president of Estonia. She was seen as the new secretary general of NATO, in the European Commission, the UN and the ECtHR. Nobody even came close to guessing. Kersti Kaljulaid went to work for Ukrainian oligarch Pinchuk. She will develop links with the highest political and administrative circles in the West. Yes, the Baltic tigers are no longer the same,” – commented upon the new appointment the political scientist Alexander Nosovich.
As for the TV channel Sorosyata, the former president of Estonia considers such an appointment as a confident bid for a position in the Ukrainian government. Moreover, the Cabinet of Ministers will soon undergo serious staff turnover. The piggies do not leave their own behind, but they do not keep them for long either: they usually dump the non-payment on the budget of the country, which they do not regret. So Ukrainians will not only pay out of their pockets for Leshchenko, Nayem and other “observers” in state companies, but also provide for the ex-president of Estonia.
Olga Talova, Antifascist News Agency