Georgian Media Reveals Poroshenko’s "FSB Agent Dossier" - Is Saakashvili Behind the Leaks?
Petr Poroshenko is mixed up in a new scandal that broke out after a Georgian channel, Rustavi 2 published photos of Ukrainian President's statements addressing Russia's FSB.
What's written there, and how they comment this in Kiev is reported by Yuliya Shustraya.
Looks like informational warriors in Ukraine came to work after their holiday break. The first bomb was dropped from Georgia's side. It caused a big reaction in several countries. The TV channel Rustavi 2 published information that in 2007, Petr Poroshenko submitted a written statement to the FSB, promising not to act against Russia's interests.
Reaction from the Ukrainian side is what you can call classic: all the channels began arguing that this is impossible under any circumstances. And actually, this is all Russia's fault, and the letters were officially labeled as forged.
"The published so-called "documents" from the name of Mr. Poroshenko are low-level forgery and fakes that were prepared and planted to Rustavi 2 by Russia's special services".
Although, there are no ideas being pitched from anyone of why would Russia need this. There's no way this could've influenced relations between our country and Ukraine. But it definitely had an effect on Ukraine's internal politics, regardless of whether or not the letters are real.
Aleksandr Afasov, political scientist: "Similar documents regarding leaders of post-Soviet countries periodically surface. We know of a similar situation with Grybauskaitė. Honestly, such documents make me very much doubt their authenticity, since their main purpose is to hurt Poroshenko inside his country. He could've had any possible type of interest, for instance with the Lipetsk factory, or with Roshen's shipments to Russia, that was supplying goods to Russian outlet chains. But I don't think that he gave such statements, this is a purely local inner-Ukrainian product".
Other specialists adhere to the same opinion. They say that it's not the much-vaunted Russian special services that need to be examined, but the internal politics' games. Coincidentally, the channel that published the documents used to be closely connected with Mikhail Saakashvili, that's now representing Ukrainian opposition.
Yury Kot, President, Future of the Country Association: "I'd look at two versions. It's possible that it's Saakashvili himself, who could have used such a way to bare his teeth at his former fellow politician. It also could have been the Americans, and to me, that's more realistic, because in today's Ukraine there's Americans fighting Americans. Proteges of one group of Americans, that's Poroshenko's group, are fighting with proteges of different Americans, that's Saakashvili's group".
Whose ever idea this was, the fight between two groups has definitely been fueled. Now Saakashvili's supporters, demanding Poroshenko's impeachment, can quote the documents, And the President's camp can accuse their opponents of an attempt to discredit the country's leader.
Yuliya Shustraya, Vesti