Yevheni Kuzmenko
16.02.2004 15:30 Facebook status update
Translated by Anna Danilova
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk from Maidan stage:
“Tomorrow we are going to Berlin at your authorization.”

That’s very nice.

To miss a meeting with Merkel is definitely not possible, but has anybody authorized these three to participate in this event? Are they imitating the process of “consulting” with people again? Ugh.

And stop flirting with Maidan by saying: “Viktor Fedorovych, you can’t buy me.” Tell this to Viktor Fedorovych himself. As far as I know, at meetings with “Big Daddy,” all three sit quietly like little children. The leaders only puff out their cheeks and get all steamed upon walking out onto the Maidan stage.

Generally, cries and theatrical pauses aside, I haven’t seen any real plan. Verkhovna Rada has to be taken under siege, yeah? But the other side will prepare for this, making use of your courteous announcement. Cobble together a Parliamentary majority? You know, I don’t believe it, rather, to a greater extent I believe Kluyev and Arbuzov who work for the other side. Campaign trips of volunteers to oblasts? This is only an accompanying package of measures, not more. The Government of Maidan? To leave the administration buildings, a Government of People’s Trust formed by Maidan? Well, well. There are so many superstructures formed at Maidan, that to create and ditch another one is mere child’s play.

In fact, I really want to be wrong, but it’s clear that the trio have now taken the position of the EU-USA as their only guideline. It’s more convenient – less responsibility; it’s more usual – you have to talk to polite, well-dressed, white-toothed diplomats instead of smokey, distrustful, enraged activists.

It’s also convenient for Yanukovych: he is used to tricking the West, so he’ll trick them again. The game is played again on the territory that is most advantageous for him.

And don’t say now that you are doing all of this “at Maidan’s authorization.” Politicians from the parliamentary opposition have really done a lot for the common cause, I have discovered a new side to many of them. But the efficiency of the leading trio I reckon to be very low. And I absolutely do not want to think of the reason for this: whether it is somebody’s backstage collusion or organizational weakness. Having no proof, I won’t make unsubstantiated statements.

But I can confidently say: the louder a politician yells from the stage shaking his fists, the less he is doing. And on the contrary, a man of action speaks calmly and almost quietly: he has no need to become hysterical. His actions are perfectly known, just as they are.