Scandals with drums and vegetable cutters, the ongoing hoarse dispute over the “17 eggs” of the Ministry of Defense, overshadowed another tender “betrayal” costing millions of budget hryvnia. Headed by Dmitry Ratnikov, the Desnyansky District State Administration bought the most expensive electricity for educational institutions in the city, writes business.
The scam also drew attention to the personality of the boss himself, whose past turned out to be unfamiliar to many. Just 10 years ago, he was an ardent supporter of cooperation within the CIS and actually helped the regionalists push Ukraine away from integration with the EU.
The most expensive light in the city
At the end of May 2023 “Our money” caught Desnyansk Regional State Administration on the purchase of light for educational institutions at the highest tariff in the capital. Subordinate chairmen of the Regional State Administration of Dmitry Ratnikov bought electricity at 6.03 UAH per kW, while the Goloseevskaya Regional State Administration, for example, paid almost half as much – 3.85 UAH/kW. The average price at which districts buy light for teachers is 4.99 UAH/kW. The education department of the Desnyansk Regional State Administration refused to reduce the price, despite the fact that since the beginning of the year prices have fallen by 20%.
Dmitry Ratnikov has headed the Desnyansk Regional State Administration since May 11, 2021. The corresponding decree of President Zelensky was, to put it mildly, unexpected, given Ratnikov’s biography. He was born on April 3, 1977 in Brovary. He spent a third of his life in politics, where he earned a reputation as one of the greatest representatives of the so-called “carcass” sect. Older readers will remember: “carcasses” were deputies who moved from party to party depending on the current situation.
Dmitry Ratnikov. Political “prostitution” level 80
For 15 years in politics Ratnikov Dmitry Gennadievich changed 4 political forces until he found himself in the powerful “Servant of the People”. From 2008 to 2020, he led the Kyiv regional organization of the European Party of Ukraine, headed by the already forgotten Nikolai Katerynchuk. From 2002 to 2010, he was elected twice in a row as a deputy of the Brovary City Council.
In 2006, he applied for the position of mayor of Brovary, but lost, despite the support of the then powerful VO “Batkivshchyna”. Like any political opportunist, Ratnikov simply had to join Yanukovych’s Party of Regions, which is what he did.
In two convocations of the Verkhovna Rada (2007-2012) he was assistant consultant co-founder and one of the leaders of the Party of Regions, Vladimir Rybak, the last “blue and white” Speaker of the Parliament. Ratnikov combined his work for the regionals with work for their main competitors – Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna: since October 2020, Rybak’s assistant was also an assistant to People’s Deputy Igor Savchenko, elected on the BYuT list.
In 2010, he was elected as a deputy of the Kyiv Regional Council from Katerynchuk’s European Party and almost immediately moved to the Party of Regions faction. By data Movement HONESTLY, was one of the most ardent truants, for several years he missed more than 50% of the sessions, and did not attend the commissions at all in 2013 and 2014. Therefore, he was a candidate for revocation of the mandate.
However, deputy Ratnikov was remembered not only for absenteeism. In the spring of 2012, he, being an active member of the PR faction, actively tried pose as an oppositionist and join the Committee of Resistance to Dictatorship – an association aimed at opposing the Yanukovych regime. This is such a multilateral political nature.
Dmitry Ratnikov. Yanukovych’s last diplomat in… Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)
Ratnikov had an unexpected career turn in 2012. Yanukovych and his protege at the Foreign Ministry, Kozhara, appointed him ambassador-at-large, minister-counselor of the Ukrainian Embassy in the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism), as well as Ukraine’s plenipotentiary representative in the commission at the CIS Economic Council. Appointed despite the lack of education and any diplomatic experience.
This purpose was fully consistent with the personnel policy of the regionals, for whom the main criterion was not professionalism, but devotion.
It also cannot be ruled out that the Russian comrades also agreed on the candidacy. Ratnikov set to work with inspiration and February 12, 20148 days before the mass execution of participants in the Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv, advocated “further close cooperation and mutual coordination within the CIS”advocated the signing of the Agreement on Free Trade in Services, the Agreement on the Transit of Pipe Transport by CIS Member States, as well as the abolition of export duties.
Thanks to the absence of an institution of reputation in Ukraine, the ex-regional and champion of strengthening ties within the so-called CIS Ratnikov did not fall under lustration, and did not even receive public condemnation. He jumped into the green carriage of Servants of the People and continued his political career as if nothing had happened. Unlucky in 2021 ran for office for the post of Brovary mayor, but went to the local council as a deputy. How fair these elections were can be judged by the statement of the majority MP from Brovary Nikolai Galushka, who spokethat in those local elections “all the places on the lists from the Servant of the People party were sold, and the call to go to the polls to fight against corrupt officials and the old elites, unfortunately, is just words.”
Now Ratnikov takes a demonstratively patriotic position, quietly “brings up” tenders and generally feels very comfortable. He worked so hard, moving from one political camp to another, to get to where he is now. Therefore, now he lives a better life, hoping that his past is far behind him and no one will remember what kind of person he is and what his path upward was.
Dmitry Filipenko
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