The website Prigovor.ru has found out that two former presidents, of Poland and Estonia, three retired prime ministers, of Denmark, Sweden and Finland, and a former defense minister of the Netherlands obtained jobs in the structures of the Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk
This month, ‘hot Finnish guys’ celebrated the second anniversary of entering NATO of once neutral Finland. The country that during several decades had served as a bridge sui generis between countries of the West and USSR, and had had a great number of economic advantages from cooperation with Russia, in April 2023, against the background of an anti-Russian hysteria, refused of its neutrality and joined NATO. This drastic vector change of its political course Finland made under the leadership of the prime minister of the country Sanna Mirella Marin.
We decided to find out what the former Ms. prime minister, who pulled her country into the aggressive military-political block NATO, is doing at present. It turned out that, despite the information immerged in mass media on her getting a job in the structures of the former British Prime Minister Tony Blaire ‘for one million British pounds’, the reality turned out to be quite different.
We, actually, found information on her job placement in London, but not in structures of Tony Blaire. She happened to become one of directors in London’s company ‘Yalta European Strategy Limited’ (the number in the British Registry 05699535) belonging to the Ukrainian oligarch und Russophobe Viktor Pinchuk, who is, we would like to remind, the son-in-law of the former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, the author of the memoires entitled ‘Ukraine is not Russia’ (Украина не Россия).
UKRAINIAN OLIGARCH AS NOURISHER OF RETIRED EUROPEAN HEADS OF STATE
Viktor Pinchuk himself, the employer of the former Finish prime minister, is one of the most consequential adepts of globalism in Ukraine and he has very close ties with the Western elite. During previous decade, he was the greatest sponsor of the Clintons’ foundation. About these ties wrote in surprise even such publications as ‘The New York Times’, which presented facts confirming that Viktor Pinchuk had transferred 13.1 million dollars to the Clintons’ Foundation as well as their close friendship, including visiting events on the occasion of birthday parties.
Apart from that, Viktor Pinchuk came in view of analytics of the website Prigovor.ru as a sponsor of the ‘Atlantic Council’**, the greatest analytical center of the globalists (its activities was acknowledged as undesirable in the Russian Federation). Moreover, his own ‘Viktor Pinchuk Foundation’ is a constant sponsor of this organization transferring to it hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. We wrote about it in the investigation entitled ‘Ukrainian lobbyists in 2021 contacted with members of the U.S. Congress 10 000 times’
Viktor Pinchuk is known as well for his work on reformatting Ukrainian society. For that purpose, also in London, he founded the project ‘Global Initiative on Ukrainian History’ within the framework of which he was organizing activities on rewriting history in order to ground efforts to cut off part of Russian lands within the framework of the project ‘Ukraine’. We wrote about this in detail in the investigation ‘Pinchuk engaged 90 scientists and Russophobes for falsifying the history of Ukraine’
REFUGE FOR RUSSOPHOBES
The combination of such an open Russophobe as Viktor Pinchuk and the former prime minister of Finland Sanna Marin who easily pulled her country into the Anti-Russian block, became of interest for us and we studied all Board members of the company ‘Yalta European Strategy Limited’ (‘YES Ltd’). It turned out that all leadership of this structure working for the Ukrainian metallurgical tycoon Victor Pinchuk consists of retired European presidents, prime ministers and ministers. Whereby in biographies of all of them there is a clear anti-Russian activity.
We have already mentioned Sanna Marin who retired just after Finland’s entry into NATO, and now let us consider other persons of the board of the company ‘Yalta European Strategy Limited’.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Danish prime minister and NATO’s general secretary for the period between 2009 and 2014, was one of the pioneers among Western politicians who openly threatened Russia with ‘significant consequences and severe economic sanctions’ as early as in the spring of 2014. Parallel to threats directed at Russia, Anders Fogh Rasmussen openly told about incredible success of NATO’s enlargement adding that this process would be continued. ‘Entering of East European countries into this organization is an impressive history of success in out time. But our task is not yet completed’.
After leaving the position of NATO’s general secretary, Anders Fogh Rasmussen founded a consulting company ‘Rasmussen Global Consulting’ that was used for pushing anti-Russian agenda in the world. As a result, the Russian Office of the Prosecutor General, on March 12, 2025, acknowledged as undesirable the activities of this company in the Russian Federation on the wording that describes with extreme precision the activities of Rasmussen’s structure:
‘From the moment of its creation, the organization has a clear anti-Russian direction; it gives high priority attention to fastening Ukraine in the so-called orbit of influence of countries of the Western coalition. After begin of the special military operation, the anti-Russian rhetoric has been enhanced, with the work on Ukrainian direction becoming more active. For instance, members of the organization have been realizing a full-fledged information-propagandist and agitation campaign with the purpose to provide maximum possible military and finance help to the Kiev regime. The call on the West to lift off limits with regard to deliveries to Kiev of armaments and to use it to full extend for dealing strikes against military targets on the territory of our country. They call for final confiscation of frozen Russian assets to enhance military support for Ukraine and to station on its territory training and consultative missions with participation of military personnel of countries of the North Atlantic Alliance’.
Apart from that, Anders Fogh Rasmussen was directly involved in Ukrainian politics as, on May 27, 2016, he was appointed adviser of the Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko, and, in 2022, Vladimir Zelensky invited Anders Fogh Rasmussen to head a group on working out Western guaranties for Kiev.
Karl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden, who during his term of office pulled neutral Sweden into the European Union, because, at that moment, in 1993-1994, Sweden’s entry into NATO at once would have been too radical. Apart from Swedish, there were also Yugoslavian affairs – Karl Bildt was a high representative on Bosnia and Herzegovina and later became an ardent supporter of bombing of Yugoslavia. After that, a nickname ‘bloody Swede’ was stuck to him.
Karl Bildt, of course, left his mark in Russia as well – by way of meetings and cooperation with Alexey Navalny (We wrote about this in the article ‘Navalny and Karl’). Moreover, Karl Bildt managed to work with another Russophobe - Mikhail Saakashvili (see the article ‘State Department’s Assets at Swedish Table’).
Alexander Kwasniewski was Polish president in 1995-2000. Under his leadership, Poland became a member of NATO. Apart from that, he later admitted that he had allowed the creation on Polish territory of secret CIA prisons (more in detail wrote about it the British newspaper ‘The Telegraph’ in the article ‘Polish president admits Poland agreed to host secret CIA ‘black site’.
He was also one of the heroes of the parliamentary investigation concerning the case of oil mafia in Poland, within the framework of which information was received about how representatives of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s* Yukos had been giving bribes to members of Kwasniewski’s team. (The website Prigovor.ru reported about this in the investigationentitled ‘Khodorkovsky gave bribes to the team of the Polish president Alexander Kwasniewski and to the brother of the Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller’).
And, of cause, there is an icing on the cake in the biography of Alexander Kwasniewski – his mutual participation together with Hunter Biden (with the very same scandalous son of Joe Biden) in the Board of the Ukrainian company Burisma the corruption tail of which has been still investigated in the USA. The Association Press agency devoted to this exuberant corruption theme the article ‘AP interview: Ex-Polish president defends Biden and Burisma’.
Wolfgang Friedrich Ischinger, chairman of the annual Munich Security Conference (2009-2022). He also took part as a representative of the European Union in negotiations on the future of Kosovo. Everybody knows how it all ended – part of the country was ripped away from Serbia and the independence of Kosovo was recognized by the West. In 2014, he was appointed representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for participating in negotiations between Kiev and representatives of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic. His real mediation role became clear taking in consideration his calls to provide Kiev with weapons for fighting against the Donbass region as early as in 2016. These calls were made in an article published in the German journal ‘Der Spiegel’**.
Kersti Kaljulaid was Estonian president from 2016 to 2021. She distinguished herself during the first session of the Estonian Parliament of the new calling by claiming that the Russian language posed a threat for the culture of the country. Moreover, in an interview with the TV channel ‘Dozhd’ she managed even to impress the liberal audience by saying that ‘fascists are being delivered in Estonia from Russia’. Apart from that, she became the first head of state to visitin Ukraine the so-called Zone of Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) thus opening a series of visits in support of the Ukrainian operation against residents of the Donbass region.
Kajsa Ollongren was from 2017 vice prime minister and minister of internal affairs and then defense minister of the Netherlands. She is one of close allies of the former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (now he is NATO’s general secretary). She is known for her regular visits of support to Kiev and by scandalous declarations at the Warsaw Security Forum in 2023. For instance, Ms. Ollongren said that ‘the support of Ukraine is a very cheap way to achieve that Russia stops being a threat to NATO’s allies. That is why it’s necessary to continue this support’. Apart from that, Kajsa Ollongren is known for her claims on the necessity to lift all restrictions with regard to delivering arms to Kiev regime.
This is the list of directors of the organization belonging to Viktor Pinchuk. Overall, all these former presidents and prime ministers have a disgraceful destiny. They barked what they had to in the field of Russophobia, and for that, as a retiree sinecure, received soft jobs in London’s structure of the corrupt Ukrainian oligarch.
TWIN FIRMS COVERING UP TRACKS
It is worthy of note that the described above British company “Yalta European Strategy Limited’ is, in fact, a twin of the well-known Ukrainian forum ‘Yalta European Strategy’ that for 20 years already has been pushing the agenda of Ukraine’s Euro-integration. At the same time, the members of the Board of London’s firm itemized in this article are mentioned also on the website of a Ukrainian company with similar name, but in the capacity of members of the supervisory council of the Ukrainian forum ‘Yalta European Forum’. And in the capacity of the team of the forum “Yalta European Strategy’ itself are mentioned completely different persons.
Thus, a logical question arises – if Ukraine is Europe (and adepts of the forum ‘Yalta European Strategy’ cry about it at every corner), then why they put members of its supervisory council as members of the board not in the Ukrainian but in the British company? It’s a simple question – what for? Why they need a company in London with a name similar to that of the Ukrainian forum, which takes place not nearly in Great Britain?
Next question is a financial one. As of the end of 2024, London’s ‘Yalta European Strategy’ reported that it has only 106 065 British pounds. It means that the company clearly cannot be a financial source for carrying out such a large-scale conference in Kiev, and on its website it boastingly reports (translated from Ukrainian): ‘20th annual ‘Yalta European Strategy’ conference called ‘Necessity to Win’ took place on September 13-14 in Kiev. More than 700 leading politicians, diplomats, businessmen, members of the armed forces of Ukraine, veterans, civil activists and experts from more than 30 countries took part in the conference…’
Nobody is indulging in illusions that one can organize an international conference with more than 700 participants from more than 30 countries having on its bank account a little bit more that 100 thousand British pounds. Organization of an even of such a scale is worth more at least by two orders.
It’s obvious that former European presidents, prime ministers and ministers, employed as directors in the showcase London firms of the Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk, live not on 100 000.
Clearly, an experienced and corrupt Viktor Pinchuk in order to cover up tracks pays to former high-ranking Russophobes a notional ‘one million pounds’ in some different way. How he does it – this is a task for our investigative project Prigovor.ru to be carried out in the future.
In the meantime, we would like to remind once more that there are following persons in active service with the Ukrainian oligarch in his London firm ‘YES Limited’ in acknowledgement of their Russophobia and globalism:
- Alexander Kwasniewski, former Polish president (1995-2005), under his leadership Poland became member of NATO.
- Kersti Kaljulaid, former Estonian president, who called Russian language a threat for her country’s culture;
- Sanna Marin, former Finnish Prime Minister, who dragged her country into the aggressive military-political block NATO;
- Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Danish Prime Minister and NATO’s general secretary from 2009 to 2014.
- ‘Bloody Swede’ Karl Bildt, former Swedish Prime Minister;
- Kajsa Ollongren, former Dutch defense minister (2022-2024).
It’s interesting to see what they will do when this ‘shady pension business’ of Viktor Pinchuk will be closed, and it will definitely be closed, as the Ukrainian billionaire soon will start to have problems incompatible with Euro-Atlantic charity.
