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his negative attitude to the Kremlin.
“Today's (in all probability Russian secret police) murder of Arkady Babchenko in Kyiv says
two things: 1. Russia regularly assassinates opponents in Kyiv. 2. The Ukrainian government had done little to stop it,” tweeted Anders Aslund, a Swedish economist and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
“The murder of a Putin critic Arkadiy Babchenko is a test for Western officials on the eve of the World Cup. Will they go to Russia to shake the murderer's hand coated with fresh blood? He
"Let others resign”: Ukraine’s finance minister won’t step down despite conflict with PM
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Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk is not going to resign despite his bitter conflict with the nation’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, the minister told journalists on May 31.
"I have never said I'm going to resign. We've
done much and there is much to be done. Let others resign. I'm not going to resign — this is my position," Interfax news agency quoted Danylyuk as saying.
In April 2016, Danylyuk replaced US-born Natalie Jaresko as the country's finance minister. The former investment manager previously served as deputy head of President Petro Poroshenko's administration, as well as being a freelance advisor to Viktor Yanukovych before his ouster.
wants to humiliate them, he wants them to shake his blooded hand. That would be his victory,” Aslund added in another tweet.
Given there was no evidence of the Kremlin’s involvement others were a little more restrained.
“Without jumping to conclusions about who ordered to kill Babchenko (possibilities are too many), it’s fair enough to say that he is yet another victim in the continuing war that Russia is waging against Ukraine. He was strongly against it and fled Russia because of that,” journalist Leonid Ragozin posted on social media.
Ukraine’s Finance Minister Danylyuk refuses to resign in an escalating fight with PM Groysman
The minister is one of Kyiv's key negotiators
with the country's main donor, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, his possible resignation is unlikely have any dramatic effect on Kyiv's cooperation with the multinational lender due to the fact that the IMF's $17.5bn support programme has been de-facto stalled since 2017.
Danylyuk unsuccessfully tried to get his adviser Yana Bugrimova appointed as deputy minister during a cabinet meeting on May 23, according to a letter of explanation he sent to the IMF. "I've been insisting on appointing Jana for more than two years — since my first days in the office," he explained.
Danylyuk also informed the G7 ambassadors