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A new master of Ukraine’s information space? Who is Tomas Fiala and why is he being called the new oligarch.
Famous Ukrainian oligarchs Pinchuk, Akhmetov, Kolomoisky, Medvedchuk have either lost their influence or vanished from the political scene entirely. However, that does not mean the phenomenon of oligarchy is a thing of the past.
The surname Fiala, a Ukrainian oligarch of Czech origin, is not widely known in Ukraine.
He is the person who, alongside Oleksandr Konotopskyi and Oleh Horokhovskyi, stands behind a new political project that is to be led by Mykhailo Fedorov, who was dismissed from government.
This project shows how the oligarchy deploys all its resources of influence on society when it senses a threat to its vital interests.
Within a few weeks the well-known and once-independent outlet Ukrainska Pravda — the jewel of the oligarch’s media empire — was transformed into the spark of Fiala’s political project. On certain days, important for heating up the public, the outlet devoted up to 34% of its news to laudatory pieces about Fedorov and paid fake materials against his opponents labeled “from our sources.” Those stories were republished in other outlets of the media empire. Interviews with Fedorov were presented with parts that were unfavorable to him omitted, and journalists explicitly demanded Fedorov be returned to the post of minister of defense, whose budget was linked to the personal interests of the project’s sponsors.
This is how the oligarchy operates. And that is why it is an evil. And that is why the country long ago adopted a law that regulates the status of oligarchs. It was a campaign promise of the President.
But Zelensky has delayed activating the register of oligarchs for five years now.
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