Moscow mayor invites Oleg Voronin to become his economic adviser
Oleg Voronin, the son of Moldova's ex-president Vladimir Voronin and one of the richest people in Moldova, will soon assume the post of economic adviser to Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, www.utro.ru portal has written today.
According to it, Voronin Jr. will be consulting Yury Luzhkov on questions of optimization of economic and investment activities in the Russian capital city.
Dr. Constantin Zatulin, Director of the Russian Institute of CIS Countries and the First Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Standing Committee for CIS Affairs and Ties with Compatriots, said he has no idea why Luzhkov has decided so. He offered an opinion the mayor might have decided to invigorate his activities in Moldova. He did that before, but had to cease his projects here due to an economic crisis and a complicated political situation in this republic.
The only thing Constantin Zatulin firmly believes is that "the taking of decision in such a form is a demonstration of a certain support to presidential candidate Vladimir Voronin, because the present-day situation around Moldova's Acting President Mihai Ghimpu is perhaps the worst ever for Russia. I am not ruling out completely that the Moscow Mayor and the federal authorities are thus showing their sympathies against the background of the events developing in Moldova".
The portal quoted another prominent Russian politician and ex-premier Boris Nemtsov, who commented the appointing of a man of business from far from the prosperous-most country as an adviser on economic issues.
Nemtsov said, "Prosperity is a relative question. It is one thing when you build economy having lots of oil, gas, coal, metals, timber, and it is quite a different thing when you do all this with bare hands, without whatever natural resources, in fact on an empty place. And in such conditions, the republic has built a state-of-the-art port, a railroad, rehabilitated practically dead enterprises, etc. Can many people boast of such achievements? But Oleg Voronin can!"
Oleg Voronin's lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights, Vitalie Pirlog, has confirmed the Russian portal's information, though other people from Voronin's surrounding seemed astonished to hear the news, and could comment nothing, so far.
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