kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: As #Russia and #MAGA folks speak of “incredible corruption” in #Ukraine, let’s ...
As #Russia and #MAGA folks speak of “incredible corruption” in #Ukraine, let’s just remind that on Transparency International ranking Ukraine occupies position 105/180 while Russia occupies 154/180 so it’s ~30 percentage points more corrupt that Ukraine.
Their narrative about corruption is also absurdly inconsistent, which we can exemplify by the case of Oleksandr Dubinskyi - Ukrainian politician, former member of Zelensky’s party who was in 2021 expelled for mass-scale tax evasion and fraud, after which he was detained.
Russia presents Dubinskyi arrest as “political prosecution” and “censorship”, which is directly contradicted by the fact that Dubinskyi frequently makes bombastic statements on social media (today’s one below). Of course, Russia is defending Dubinskyi granted that he was also suspected of covertly cooperating with Russian intelligence. Just so that you understand the corruption background here:
Media reported that Dubinsky owned 24 apartments and 17 cars. He refused to declare his property, explaining that he earned it before he became a deputy and that he made decent money as a journalist. He called the Bihus.Info investigation “a hit piece”. In addition to apartments and cars, he also owns 70 acres of land and two houses. This property is valued at $2.5 million. According to Dubinsky, his salary on 1+1 was only ₴72,000.
A part of the property is registered in his name, another part was in the name of his ex-wife Lesia Tsybko and his mother. Moreover, until 2016 the only official source of his mother’s income was a pension. Much of the mother’s property in the capital appeared in 2019, an election year.[46] Dubinsky explained that 7 cars, including Mercedes and Maserati, are registered in the name of his mother by saying “Mum likes the speed”.
In summary:
Russia criticises corruption in Ukraine in spite of being much more corrupt itself
At the same tie Russia criticises anti-corruption prosecution in Ukraine
Russia calls “free speech” card against a suspect who can speak freely, while in Russia people simply disappear in penal colonies for years
Can you make any sense of it? 🤔
Their narrative about corruption is also absurdly inconsistent, which we can exemplify by the case of Oleksandr Dubinskyi - Ukrainian politician, former member of Zelensky’s party who was in 2021 expelled for mass-scale tax evasion and fraud, after which he was detained.
Russia presents Dubinskyi arrest as “political prosecution” and “censorship”, which is directly contradicted by the fact that Dubinskyi frequently makes bombastic statements on social media (today’s one below). Of course, Russia is defending Dubinskyi granted that he was also suspected of covertly cooperating with Russian intelligence. Just so that you understand the corruption background here:
Media reported that Dubinsky owned 24 apartments and 17 cars. He refused to declare his property, explaining that he earned it before he became a deputy and that he made decent money as a journalist. He called the Bihus.Info investigation “a hit piece”. In addition to apartments and cars, he also owns 70 acres of land and two houses. This property is valued at $2.5 million. According to Dubinsky, his salary on 1+1 was only ₴72,000.
A part of the property is registered in his name, another part was in the name of his ex-wife Lesia Tsybko and his mother. Moreover, until 2016 the only official source of his mother’s income was a pension. Much of the mother’s property in the capital appeared in 2019, an election year.[46] Dubinsky explained that 7 cars, including Mercedes and Maserati, are registered in the name of his mother by saying “Mum likes the speed”.
In summary:
Russia criticises corruption in Ukraine in spite of being much more corrupt itself
At the same tie Russia criticises anti-corruption prosecution in Ukraine
Russia calls “free speech” card against a suspect who can speak freely, while in Russia people simply disappear in penal colonies for years
Can you make any sense of it? 🤔